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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 5 – Belshazzar’s Feast
show the interpretation of the thing. 16. And
I have heard of thee, that thou canst make
interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if
thou canst read the writing, and make known
to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be
clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold
about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in
the kingdom.
It appears from the circumstance here
narrated, that the fact that Daniel was a
prophet of God, had by some means been lost
sight of at the court and palace. This was
doubtless owing to his having been absent at
Shushan in the province of Elam, as narrated
in chapter 8:1, 2, 27, whither he had been sent
to attend to the business of the kingdom there.
The country being swept by the Persian army
would compel his return to Babylon at this
