Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, Daniel stated, was of a great and awe-inspiring image whose (1) head was of fine gold, (2) his breast and his arms of silver, (3) his belly and his sides of brass, and (4) his legs of iron, his feet part iron and part clay, clearly a picture of deterioration. A stone, “cut out without hands” and in no man’s hand, “smote the image upon his feet,” destroying it so radically that its fragments were like “the chaff of the summer threshingfloors: and the wind carried them away,
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