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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
and the pope. It was therefore evident that

the Ostrogoths must be rooted out of Rome

before the pope could exercise the power with

which he had been clothed. To accomplish this

object, the Italian war was commenced in 534.

The management of the campaign was

entrusted to Belisarius. On his approach

toward Rome, several cities forsook Vitijes,

their Gothic and heretical sovereign, and

joined the armies of the Catholic emperor. The

Goths, deciding to delay offensive operations

till spring, allowed Belisarius to enter Rome

without opposition. “The deputies of the pope

and clergy, of the senate and people, invited

the lieutenant of Justinian to accept their

voluntary allegiance.”

Belisarius entered Rome Dec. 10, 536. But this

was not an end of the struggle; for the Goths,