Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

a style and form, as would make it best agree with
that old religion of the Medes and Persians which
he grafted it upon.[27]
The above hypothesis is supported by the
following statements from E. A. Gordon, an
Orientalist of wide renown. In reading these
testimonies we must remember that Daniel,
Ezekiel, and Jeremiah were brought up together as
boys and as prophets were prophesying at the same
time. Thus, we can see more clearly the possible
contacts of Zoroaster with Daniel.
“Note that the Persian sage, Zoroaster, is said
to have conferred with Jeremiah, another prophet
of the Hebrew exile.”
“In the fifth century B.C. Ezekiel gives a
wonderful account of the caravan traffic with Tyre
in his day, which was also that of Confucius, Laotze,
Gautama Buddha, and Pythagoras.”[28]
In answer to those historians who advocate the
hypothesis that the Persian impostor was a
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