Since that day,
nine hundred and fifteen years have passed away; and during all this
period, Jehovah hath given unto his people abundant signs of his
presence. Thus our God is not a being that dwells only in the imagination
of men, but his wonderful acts, O king, are written on the pages of
correct history."
"If these things are so, surely the God of Israel is the only God. But,
Daniel, thou knowest that it is much harder for Cyrus the Persian to
believe these things than for thee, who art a native Hebrew, and a firm
believer in the God thou worshipest. Have not the Persians their
histories of their gods as well as ye?"
"They have, O king! But those histories are dark, indefinite, and without
date, which is a conclusive evidence that they are fiction, and not
history. If my lord the king hath aught to doubt in regard to the
correctness of our ancient historians concerning our God, what thinketh
he of those miraculous displays of Divine power witnessed by his servant
and by thousands more, during the last threescore years and ten?"
"Proceed, Daniel; the king is well pleased to hear thee!"
"Be it known to thee, O king, that all the calamities that of late have
befallen Babylon have come to pass in perfect accordance with the
predictions of God's prophets, some of whom prophesied over two hundred
years before these events transpired.
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