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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
Jerusalem placed by conquest in the hands

of that power which was to hold the “glorious

land” in its iron grasp till it had utterly

consumed it.

VERSE 17. He shall also set his face to enter

with the strength of his whole kingdom, and

upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and

he shall give him the daughter of women,

corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his

side, neither be for him.

Bishop Newton furnishes another reading for

this verse, which seems more clearly to

express the sense, as follows: “He shall also set

his face to enter by force the whole kingdom.”

Verse 16 brought us down to the conquest of

Syria and Judea by the Romans. Rome had

previously conquered Macedon and Thrace.

Egypt was now all that remained of the “whole