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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
the victorious Germans, and acted in that

war with equal spirit and prudence. On the

death of Augustus, he succeeded, without

opposition, to the sovereignty of the empire;

which, however, with his characteristic

dissimulation, he affected to decline, until

repeatedly solicited by the servile senate.”

Dissimulation on his part, flattery on the part

of the servile senate, and a possession of the

kingdom without opposition — such were the

circumstances attending his accession to the

throne, and such were the circumstances for

which the prophecy called.

The person brought to view in the text is

called “a vile person.” Was such the character

sustained by Tiberius? Let another paragraph

from the Encyclopedia answer: —