would there be a more hostile place than Babylon for Daniel’s convictions. The culture of Babylon was not conducive to Biblical convictions. “Babylon was one of the most spectacular metropolises the earth has ever seen. We are told that the wall around it was three hundred feet high, that it was eighty feet broad, that the Euphrates River flowed through it and was separated into beautiful canals that made a Venice out of the interior of the city. There was a veritable civic empire within those walls