Page 19 - 09 The Trumpets

THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

match for any general in the degenerate

Roman army. For a number of years, the Goths

remained in the eastern division of the

empire; part of the time at peace, at other

times, at variance with the emperor. In the

year 408 Alaric descended upon Italy. He

hastily passed the Alps and the Po, pillaged the

cities of northern Italy, and advanced a

constantly increasing army to the city of

Ravenna, where the pusillanimous emperor

had his capital. Without meeting any

resistance, he proceeded along the Adriatic

until he came near Rome. Alaric took Ostia, the

port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, and

demanded unconditional surrender of the city

itself. The senate yielded without reluctance,

and Alaric placed the purple robe of the