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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
shall hold the second rank after the holy

apostolic chair of the elder Rome.”

Toward the close of the sixth century, John of

Constantinople denied the Roman supremacy,

and assumed for himself the title of universal

bishop; where upon, Gregory the great,

indignant at the usurpation, denounced John,

and declared, with unconscious truth, that he

who would assume the title of universal

bishop was Antichrist. Phocas, in 606,

suppressed the claim of the bishop of

Constantinople, and vindicated that of the

bishop of Rome. But Phocas was not the

founder of papal supremacy. Says Croly, “That

Phocas repressed the claim of the bishop of

Constantinople is beyond a doubt. But the

highest authorities among the civilians and

annalists of Rome, spurn the idea that Phocas