"This is the interpretation of the thing. Mene--God hath numbered thy
kingdom and finished it; Tekel--thou art weighed in the balances and found
wanting; Peres--thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and
Persians."
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put
a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him,
that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
. . . . . . .
As soon as Cyrus saw that the ditches, which they had long worked upon,
were finished, he began to plan for the execution of his vast design,
which as yet he had communicated to no one. He was informed that, in the
city, on a certain day, a great festival was to be celebrated, and that
the Babylonians, on occasions of that solemnity, were accustomed to pass
the whole night in drunkenness and debauchery. Of this impious feast we
have already spoken. Thus Providence furnished him with as fit an
opportunity as he could desire.
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