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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
landed property of France was owned by a

few landlords in immense estates. These

estates were required by the law to remain

undivided, so that no heirs or creditors could

partition them. But revolution knows no law;

and in the anarchy that now reigned, as noted

also in the eleventh of Revelation, the titles of

the nobility were abolished, and their lands

disposed of in small parcels for the benefit of

the public exchequer. The government was in

need of funds, and these large landed estates

were confiscated, and sold at auction in

parcels to suit purchasers. The historian thus

records this unique transaction: —

“The confiscation of two thirds of the landed

property of the kingdom, which arose from

the decrees of the convention against the

emigrants, clergy, and persons convicted at