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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
positions only, as the attempt which some
make to bring in the papacy here is so
evidently wide of the mark that its
consideration need not detain us. If neither of
these positions is free from difficulty, as we
presume no one will claim that it is,
absolutely, it only remains that we take that
one which has the weight of evidence in its
favor. And we shall find one in favor of which
the evidence does so greatly preponderate, to
the exclusion of all others, as scarcely to leave
any room for doubt in regard to the view here
mentioned.
Respecting the application of this portion of
the prophecy to Napoleon or to France under
his leadership, so far as we are acquainted
with his history, we do not find events which
we can urge with any degree of assurance as
