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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
flatteries, or embrace the cause from

unworthy motives, be insincere, hollow-

hearted, and speak smooth and friendly words

through a policy of self-interest.

VERSE 35. And some of them of understanding

shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to

make them white, even to the time of the end:

because it is yet for a time appointed.

Though restrained, the spirit of persecution

was not destroyed. It broke out wherever

there was opportunity. Especially was this the

case in England. The religious state of that

kingdom was fluctuating, it being sometimes

under Protestant, and sometimes papal

jurisdiction, according to the religion of the

ruling house. The bloody Queen Mary was a

mortal enemy to the Protestant cause, and

multitudes fell victims to her relentless