The Chaldeans answered before the king, in an attempt to establish the impossibility for mere human beings to satisfy the king's demand, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter, revealing this secret thing; therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler that asked such things at any magician or astrologer or Chaldean. The fact that no ruler on earth, no matter how great and mighty he was, had ever made such a demand, was to them a proof that the fulfillment of his command transcended the highest human wisdom.

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