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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 5 – Belshazzar’s Feast
Daniel first of all disclaims the idea of being

influenced by such motives as governed the

soothsayers and astrologers. He says, Let thy

rewards be to another. He wishes it distinctly

understood that he does not enter upon the

work of interpreting this matter on account of

the offer of gifts and rewards. He then

rehearses the experience of the king’s

grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, as set forth in

the preceding chapter. He told the king that

though he knew all this, yet he had not

humbled his heart, but had lifted up himself

against the God of heaven, and even carried

his impiety so far as to profane his sacred

vessels, praising the senseless gods of men’s

making, and failing to glorify the God in whose

hands his breath was. For this reason, he tells

him, it is, that the hand has been sent forth

from that God whom he had daringly and