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BIBLE EXAMINER:
PUBLISHED
BY
JOiiIItTA
T.
RIMES,
No.
14,I)evon~hire
Streel.
COLLEGE
BIBLE EXAMINER,
MOST of the following articles were prepared for,
md
have appeared in, the Midnight
Cry.
They
am.
now
gi-
in this new form
'by
sepwat.
Some additiow
have been made to them
;
particularly
to
the
Expsei-
tion of the 8th and 9th chapters of Daniel. Thece
dclea are sent foah with a full conviction that they
may not travel far before our Lord will have come in
the
clouds of heaven; bnt still, they are sent under
the conviction that the injunction of our Lord
in
to be
rega~ded
by all, viz.,
"
Ompy
till
I
come;"
md,
a
Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when he
cometh shall find
ao
doing."
I
GEO. STORRS.
BOSTON,March,
1843.
Exposition of Nebnehadnezzar's
Dream.
DANIEL
11.-BY
GEORGE STORRP.
There are those who, when they come to hear sny-
thing on the appearing of Christ and the end of the
world, expect to hear us
predict
and
prophesy
on thow
mauere.
With predictiug
sad
prophesyiug, in the
4
BIBLE EXAMINER.
sense
of foretelling future events,
I
have nothing to do.
I
take the rophecies that God has given us, and tell
you
horn
?understand them, and why I understand
them
as
I do. When this is done, yod will judge for
yourselves, aa each of you must give account fur him-
self, whether the interpretation given accords with
the general tenor of the Scriptures.
I force not my
P
cannot agree with,
ne
whe tall us that the
ex osltlnn upon any man.
Hear, then judge.
ropheciu
mmol
be u%ntond.
I1
mi&
such
fanguage the language of
infidelity.
What is it but
saying-" Revelation is
no
Revelation?"
Revolatioq
is
somethin made known, and, of course, to be under-
,
d:
'
f
'o
say, that any part of it cannot be
undep
stood,
i.,
just
eu
far, to be infidels. There are
mama
men who denounce infidelity with an unsparing hand
who, at the same time, tell us, we cannot understand
the prophecies
!
What is this but infidelity!
A
man
may say, with truth, that
he
does not nnder-
stand
the
prophecies; but,
ts
say, "they
cannot
be
understood,"
~s
a very different matter; and he th&
doe8 it, whatever his standing, or reputation, is infidel
in
his principles. Mot that he rejects the
whole
of
Revelatio~l
;
but he denies that a part of the Bible
ia
a
rqvelxujor~.
I
most
salemnly believe that
God
designed every
part of the Bible should be understood
;
but not with-
out searching the Scriptures, comparing one part with
another, and earnest prayer to Him for that same
Spirit,
to
guide us into truth, which at first inspired
holy men
to
write the sacred pages. Hence, to come,
to a knowledge of the truth, we must first
seek
d
.
childlike spirit, and pray much for divine aid.
The
blessed Jesus said-"
I thank thee,
0
Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these thinge
from the
guise
and
mht,
and hast revealed them unto
dcrbes.
Even
so,
father, for so it seemed good in thy
1
eight." First, an humble s irit is necessary. Then,
for our encouragement, the 8wiour husaid,
'.
If you,
being
evil, know hqr to
give
good
gifts
unto your
children, how mnch more shall ponr Heavenly Father
give
the
Holy Spirit to them that ask him."
Let
us then humbly yet
conflently
seek
the aid
of
the Holy Spirit
to
give us understanding, and in
that light search the Scriptures to know what
was
the
I.
mind of the Spirit that inspired them, and
we
shall
not search in vain.
Let us now examine the
second
chapter of Daniel.
I
shall, for the sake of brevity, begin at the 31st vem.
Verses
31-36. "Thou,
0
king, sawest, and
be-
hold, a great image. This great image, whcee bright
nesa
was
excellent, stood before thee, and the form
thereof was terrible. This image's
hsad
wan
of fine
gold-his
breust
end
anns
of silver-his belly and his
thighs of brass-his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and
part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone
wit8
cut out,
without hands, which smote the image
upon
hu
feet
that were of iron and clay, and
brake
them
in
piccer
:
then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and
'
the
gold, broken to pieces together, and became like
the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, and the
wind
carried
them away, that no place was found for them
:
and the stone that smote the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the
dream
;
and we will tell the interpretation themof
be-
RDre
the king."
I wish to
call
the attention of my readers to an in-
qnir
r
UPON
HIS
FEET." Let that be reinembered, far
Where did
the stone strike the image!
I
shall have occasion to speak of that fact again.
Verses
37,
38.
"
Thou,
0
king, arta king of kings
:
for the
God
of heaven hath
given
thee
a
kingdom,
pow-
er, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the
children of men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the
fowls of the heaven, hath he given into thy hand, and
hath made thee ruler
over th
dl,"
[i. e., has given
thee
universal
dominion on earth.]
"Thou art [i. e.,
thy kingdom
is,]
this head of gold."
Babylon was the
jht
kingdom of
uN'd
em pi^.
h
ass
founded by Nimrod, the great
@son
d
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