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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
world should be taxed.” Luke 2:1. That
taxing which embraced all the world was an
event worthy of notice; and the person who
enforced it has certainly a claim to the title of
“a raiser of taxes,” above every other
competitor.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat, as quoted in
Current Literature for July, 1895, says:
“Augustus Caesar was not the public
benefactor he is represented. He was the most
exacting tax collector the Roman world had up
to that time ever seen.”
And he stood up “in the glory of the kingdom.”
Rome reached in his days the pinnacle of its
greatness and power. The “Augustan Age” is
an expression everywhere used to denote the
golden age of Roman history. Rome never saw
a brighter hour. Peace was promoted, justice
