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Horę Propheticę; Or Dissertations on the Book of the Prophet Daniel
Hor Prophetic Or Dissertations on the Book of the Prophet Daniel Author:Joseph Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: T. and E. Bell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can ... more »select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 3. Chapter II. Vs. 1 -- 23. A S the providence of God is universal, and presides over all men, whatever may be their system of religion; so, he has been pleased, on particular occasions, to reveal future events to heathens, as well as to those who believed on the only one true God. But those revelations, which he has made to heathens, have generally had an especial regard to his own church and people; they appear to have been given chiefly for their advantage. It would be easy to adduce many instances of divine revelation by dreams to those who worshipped idols ; but a few may suffice for our present purpose. The dreams of the Butler and Baker who were in the same prison with Joseph are well known ; and it is also equally known, that the Egyptians were gross idolaters. But these dreams were sent of God, that Joseph might have an opportunity of interpreting them; and thence, in due time, of being introduced to Pharaoh to explain his dreams: and by that means become the prime minister of Egypt, and the preserver of his father and family. But the case of Pharaoh's dreamt is still more in point; for Joseph told him before he explained them, ( Gen. xli. 26 ) " God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do, " evidently describing the dreams as supernatural. There is also a striking instance of divine interference in the history of Alexander the Great; who, when at Dion in Macedonia meditating upon his Persian war, saw in a dream some years before the event, the Jewish High Priest coming to him in that manner in which it is known he did come to him at Sapha; and by th...« less