Surely one: would think that Nebuchadnezzar's fate would have taught his successor the danger of overweening pride and of placing one's trust in temporal power, of God-(794 forgetting and of self-indulgence and self-aggrandisement. And surely weighty and enduring. First of all Daniel denounces Belshazzar for his pride. Let us examine this sin in his life. It will help us to trace its evil working in our own. This sin was particularly inexcusable in Belshazzar. It had been his father's failing—the sin for which Nebuchadnezzar had suffered so terribly "And thou knewest all this" says the fearless old prophet, after recalling his father's sins and its punishment... "But thou hast not humbled thy heart, but hast lifted up thyself and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified" In the fastness of his great walled city, amid whose towers and gardens, the wonder of the world, he had brooked no equal. He was satisfied with himself. He gloried in the pomp and the power of his great kingdom. He even lifted up himself against the God of heaven. "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote."
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