| Show A looking glass glss femi 6 ahr th bible or i t Pas fahd present V when tle the the A captives of 0 israel israel were in ln babylon i many of them sincerely and truly wor shipped the god of heaven in accordance with his commandments to them this greatly annoyed no d the king and roused his bis we jealousy and anger in babylon there was no law or decree against this thib kind of worship and to enact one expressly prohibiting it under under penalty would savor entirely too strongly y even for that barbarous king of 0 special or invidious legislation to accomplish his purpose pa be with a seeming show of impartiality he setup a golden image in the plain of dura and commanded all ali 11 people nations and languages states a and n d territories to worship the golden goiden gogen image imaged ap this ibis would apply only to the captives one territory territory for the king well knew that all others would be proud to comply as a it entirely coincided with their modes ot of worship ile he also knew equal equally 1 y well that the captives could not bow the knee to his golden image without denyl denyi denying their belr anth fajth faith and contravening the comman commands 1 they b ey professed to have received recel ved from jehovah the kin king vainly gnap imagined ned that lie he had his captives in a narrow place and could not discern that he was taking a course to br bring toi ta pass heavens decree to wit the kirl kingdom dom is departed from thee 2 if anciently a wicked though powerful kim king was so easily and suddenly dethroned dethroner for tor 0 opposing god and his laws and afflicting his people upon what ground is it presumable that a like course will not produce a like result in the days of our constitution |
