294 The Fundamentals. is left for an entire essay on the discoveries of the last five years to be treated by another hand, specially competent for the task. Passing by the monumental evidence which has removed objections to the historical statements of the New Testament, as less needing support, attention will be given first to one of the Old Testament narratives, which is nearest to us in time, and against which the harshest judgments of modern critics have been hurled. We refer to the statements in the Book of Daniel concerning the personality and fate of Belshazzar. THE IDENTIFICATION OF BELSHAZZAR. In the fifth chaper of Daniel Belshazzar is called the "son o lo f n N a e n b d uc t h o a h d a n v e e zz b a e r e ," n a s n la d in is o s n ai t d he to n h ig a h v t e i b n ee w n h " ic k h in t g h " e o c f ity Ba w b a y s taken. But according to the other historians he was the son of Nabonidus, who was then king, and wh0 is known to have been out of the city when it was captured, and to have lived 3ome time afterwards. crep H an er cy e, a c s er c ta o i u n l l d y, be th i e m re ag is in a ed b . out In a d s e g ed la , r t i h n e g re an w a o p u p ld ar s e e n e t m di t s o be a flat contradiction between profane and sacred historians. But in 1854 Sir Henry Rawlinson found, while excavating in the ruins of Mugheir (identified as the site of the city of Ur, from which Abraham emigrated), inscriptions which stated c th ia a t t ed wh w e i n th N h a i b m on o i n du t s he wa th s r n o e n a e r h t i h s e e e ld n e d st of so h n r , s B re il i - g s n ha h r- e u a zz ss u o r , b an le d t a h l a lo t wB e e d lsh h a im zza th r e sh ro o y u a ld l t h it a l v e, e t b h e u e s n m in ak B in a g by i l t o p n e , r a f s ec h tl e y is cr s e a d i i d to have been in the Bible, and that he should have been called k bo in n g id , u a s ml su t r h v a i t ve h d e ou sho ts u id ld e. ha T ve ha p t er h is e he s d ho i u n ld th h e av ci e ty b w ee h n ile ca N lle a d king while his father was still living is no more strange than h th 0 a sh t a J p ehha G t r , a k m ing sh o o f u J ld ud h a a h v , e se b v e e e n n · y a ea. p r p ·S o b in e t f e o d re b h y is h f is ath fa e t r h 's er d , ea J t e h
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