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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
been waged in the name, and by the

disciples, of the God of Peace.” — Decline and

Fall, Vol. IV, p. 526.

Let it be marked that in this year, 508,

paganism had so far declined, and Catholicism

had so far relatively increased in strength, that

the Catholic Church for the first time waged a

successful war against both the civil authority

of the empire and the church of the East,

which had for the most part embraced the

Monophysite doctrine. The extermination of

65,000 heretics was the result.

With the following extract, we close the

testimony on this point: —

“We now invite our modern Gamaliels to take

a position with us in the place of the sanctuary

of paganism (since claimed as the ‘patrimony

of St. Peter’) in 508. We look a few years into