Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . us clothing a mortalman with a prerogative of the Deity? And this was accomplished bypapal intrigue and influence, July 21, 1870. Following in swift succes-sion, the last vestige of temporal power was wrenched from his grasp. Itwas because of these words, and as if in almost immediate connectionwith them, that the prophet saw this power given to the burning dominion was to be consumed unto the end, implying that when hispower as a civil ruler should be wholly destroyed, the end would not befar off. And the prophet immediately adds: And the king
Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . us clothing a mortalman with a prerogative of the Deity? And this was accomplished bypapal intrigue and influence, July 21, 1870. Following in swift succes-sion, the last vestige of temporal power was wrenched from his grasp. Itwas because of these words, and as if in almost immediate connectionwith them, that the prophet saw this power given to the burning dominion was to be consumed unto the end, implying that when hispower as a civil ruler should be wholly destroyed, the end would not befar off. And the prophet immediately adds: And the kingdom anddominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. All, inthis line of prophecy, has now been fully accomplished except the closingscene. Next comes the last, crowning act in the drama, when the beastwill be given to the burning flame, and the saints of the Most High takethe kingdom. We must be, now, upon the very threshold of this gloriousevent. Cbdpter. v^,, ^ ,.jE now come once more, says Dr. Clarke, to theft Mebrew, the Chaldee part of the book being finished.^ As the Chaldeans had a particular interest both inthe history and the jpro^hecies from chapter 2 : 4 to the endof chapter 7, the whole is written in Clialdee; but as theprophecies which remain concern times posterior to the Chal-dean monarchy, andvprincipally relate to the church and jpeojpleof God generally^ they are written in the Hebrew language, thisbeing the tongue in which God chose to reveal all his counselsgiven under the Old Testament relative to the New^ Verse 1. In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a visionappeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared untome at the first. One prominent characteristic of the sacred writings, andone which should forever shield them from the charge of beingworks of fiction, is the frankness and freedom with which thewriters state all the circumstances connected w
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