XII.
But having now done with this account of the
consummation, we shall turn our exposition to those matters which fall
to be stated by us next in order. I adduce, therefore, a witness
altogether worthy of credit,—namely, the prophet Daniel, who
interpreted the vision of Nabuchodonosor, and from the beginning of the
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way to those who
seek to
walk
therein—to wit, the manifestation of the
truth. For what
saith the
prophet? He presignified the matter clearly to
Nabuchodonosor in the following terms: “Thou, O king,
sawest, and behold a great image standing before thee, whose head was
of
gold, its arms and shoulders of
silver, its
belly and thighs of
brass, its legs of
iron, its
feet part of
iron and part of
clay.
Thou sawest till that a
stone was
cut out without
hand; and it smote
the image upon its
feet, which were part of
iron and part of
clay, and
brake them to pieces. Then was the
clay, and the
iron, and the
brass, and the
silver, and the
gold broken to pieces together, and
became like the
chaff of the
summer threshing-floor; and the stone that
smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole
earth.”
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