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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
maintained, luxury curbed, discipline

established, and learning encouraged. In his

reign, the temple of Janus was for the third

time shut since the foundation of Rome,

signifying that all the world was at peace; and

at this auspicious hour our Lord was born in

Bethlehem of Judea. In a little less than

eighteen years after the taxing brought to

view, seeming but a “few days” to the distant

gaze of the prophet, Augustus died, not in

anger nor in battle, but peacefully in his bed,

at Nola, whither he had gone to seek repose

and health, A. D. 14, in the seventy-sixth year

of his age.

VERSE 21. And in his estate shall stand up a

vile person, to whom they shall not give the

honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in