This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...When the time of their training was over, the four Hebrew youths were brought to the king, who soon discovered that in all manner of wisdom and understanding, and in the solution of difficult questions, they were far superior to the wise men about his court, and they were speedily advanced to stations of trust and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...When the time of their training was over, the four Hebrew youths were brought to the king, who soon discovered that in all manner of wisdom and understanding, and in the solution of difficult questions, they were far superior to the wise men about his court, and they were speedily advanced to stations of trust and honour in the palace. "And Daniel continued" (we read) "even unto the first year of king Cyrus;" that is, as it is said in the margin of our Bibles, "he lived to see that glorious time of the return of his people from the Babylonish captivity, though he did not die then," for he specially mentions (xi.) a revelation that was made to him in the third year of Cyrus. Wonderful indeed was the man who thus lived steadfast and unshaken for more than seventy years, in the courts of heathen kings, "honoured during the forty-three years of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, doing the king's business under the insolent and sensual boy Belshazzar, owned by the conquering Medo-Persian; the stay, doubtless, and human protector of his people during those long years of exile; probably commissioned to write the decree of Cyrus which gave leave for that long longed-for restoration of his people, whose reentrance into their land, like Moses of old, he was not to share. Deeds are more eloquent than words. Such undeviating integrity, beyond the ordinary life of man, in a worshipper of the One God, in the most dissolute and degraded of the merchant cities of old, first minister in the first of the world monarchies, was in itself a great fulfilment of the purpose of God, in converting the chastisement of His people into the riches of the Gentiles." There are several particulars in which Daniel may be compared with Joseph, who stands at the ...
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