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REV. AXDEEW CRAIG ROBIXSOX, :.I.A., OX DARIUS 



had work for him to do. AVas he not God's " shepherd " — " the 

 Lord's anointed " — was he not held by the Lord's right 

 hand? 



And next he marched on Babylon. But it is needless to spend 

 any time in regard to questions concerned with the method of 

 its capture, as these ^vere pretty fully discussed in another 

 paper which I had the honour of reading before the Victoria 

 Institute, " The Fall of Babylon and Daniel v, 30," reported 

 in vol. xlvi, p. 9, of the Transactions. I shall just quote from 

 the Cyrus cylinder a few of the gracious words in which Cyrus 

 describes his triumphal approach to, and entry of, the great city 

 of Babylon. 



" Babylon he spared from tribulation. The people of Babylon, 

 all of them, the whole of Sumer and Akkad princes and 

 governors beneath him bowed down ; they kissed his feet, 

 they rejoiced in his Kingdom, bright was their counten- 

 ance. ' My wide-spreading troops into Babylon advance 

 in peace.' " 



" When into Babylon I entered favourably, and with 

 shouts of joy, in the palace of the princes I took up my 

 lordly dwelling. Marduk the great lord, the great heart 

 of the Babylonians incKned to me, and daily do I care for 

 his worship," etc. 



I am now going to quote from the Cyropaedia a passage of 

 primary importance in regard to the identification of Cyaxares, 

 Eang of Media, mth Darius the Median. When it seemed to 

 Cyrus that affairs in Babylon were in such a satisfactory state 

 that he could go away from home, he made preparations for a 

 journey to Persia, and when he considered that he had enough of 

 the things which he thought he would want, he set out. " But 

 when as they journeyed they came down to Media, Cyrus turned 

 aside to Cyaxares. And when they had embraced one another, 

 Cyrus said to Cyaxares that there would be a house set apart 

 for him in Babylon and government oJSices {dp-^eLa), 

 so that he might have, whenever he came thither, suitable 

 residences to put up in. And then he gave him other gifts, 

 many and beautiful. But Cyaxares, on his part, received these 

 things ; and he sent for his daughter to come to him ; and she 

 came bearing a golden crown and bracelets and a twisted metal 

 collar and a Median robe, the most beautiful possible. And the 

 girl crowned Cyrus, and Cyaxares spoke : ' I give you,' he said, 



