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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
feel daily that they are doing, if I can tell.’
‘What mental torture,’ observes Tacitus, in
reference to this passage, ‘which could extort
such a confession!’”
“Seneca remarks of Tiberius that he was never
intoxicated but once in his life; for he
continued in a state of perpetual intoxication
from the time he gave himself to drinking, to
the last moment of his life.”
Tyranny, hypocrisy, debauchery, and
uninterrupted intoxication — if these traits
and practices show a man to be vile, Tiberius
exhibited that character in disgusting
perfection.
VERSE 22. And with the arms of a flood shall
they be overflown from before him, and shall
be broken; yea, also the prince of the
covenant.
