Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . partly with sohd gold in the form of pictures. And of the king^s judgment hall he reported:The roof had been carried up in the form of a dome, to resemblein a manner the heavens, and that it was roofed with sapphire, a stonethat is very blue and like heaven to the eye; and there were images of thegods, which they worship, fixed aloft, and looking like golden figuresshining out of the ether.— Philoslratus, Life of Apolloniiis, book 1,chap 25, Evidently Babylon was still the land of graven images,and the desolation foretold by the prophet had not
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . partly with sohd gold in the form of pictures. And of the king^s judgment hall he reported:The roof had been carried up in the form of a dome, to resemblein a manner the heavens, and that it was roofed with sapphire, a stonethat is very blue and like heaven to the eye; and there were images of thegods, which they worship, fixed aloft, and looking like golden figuresshining out of the ether.— Philoslratus, Life of Apolloniiis, book 1,chap 25, Evidently Babylon was still the land of graven images,and the desolation foretold by the prophet had not yet be-fallen its palaces. But that prophetic word, written eight 3 34 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy hundred years before, was still upon the scroll of the Book,the sure Word of God, who sees the end from the view given us by Apollonius is perhaps the last glimpsewe have of Babylons passing glory. Even then for cen-turies the walls had been a quarry from which stones weredrawn for Babylons rival, Seleucia, on the Tigris. And. EGYPTS GLORY DEPARTED The idols of Egypt shall be 19:1. Strabo, the Greek geographer, who also wrote in the firstcentury, had described Babylon as in great part deserted,adding, No one would hesitate to apply to it what one of the comic writerseaid of Megalopolitae, in Arcadia, The great city is a great desert.—Geography, book 16, chap. 1. Already pagan writers had begun to describe its conditionin the terms of the prophecy uttered so long before. Andnow what is its state? The doom foretold has fallen heavyupon the city, upon its palaces, and upon the graven imagesof Babylon. For a century and more, travelers accountshave frequently borne witness to the exact fulfilment of the 7^he Witness of the Centuries 35 prophecy in the remarkable desolations of that city, oncemistress of the world. *Babylon shall become heaps, said the prophecy, andowls shall dwell there. This is what Mr. Layard, the Eng-lish archeologist, found on hi
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