Page 20 - 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.

emperor on Attalus, the prefect of the city.

Rome, the proud monarchy, was in the hands

of a barbarian army, which could crown its

emperor at will and insult its senate at

pleasure. Later, Attalus, the tool of Alaric, was

degraded in the presence of the people; his

diadem was taken from him, and as if to offer

insult to injury, the haughty barbarian sent

the ensigns of royalty to Honorius, the real

emperor, who was trembling behind the

fortifications of Ravenna. Folly and

imprudence provoked the Goths, and the city

of Rome was awakened one night in the year

410 by the tremendous trumpet of the

barbarian soldiers. Rome was ravaged. The

gold and the silver, the silver plate and costly

furniture from Roman palaces, were loaded