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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
Bishop Newton presents the following

reading as agreeing better with the original:

“And the arms of the overflower shall be

overflown from before him, and shall be

broken.” The expressions signify revolution

and violence; and in fulfillment we should look

for the arms of Tiberius, the overflower, to be

overflown, or, in other words, for him to suffer

a violent death. To show how this was

accomplished, we again have recourse to the

Encyclopedia Americana, art. Tiberius: —

“Acting the hypocrite to the last, he disguised

his increasing debility as much as he was able,

even affecting to join in the sports and

exercises of the soldiers of his guard. At

length, leaving his favorite island, the scene of

the most disgusting debaucheries, he stopped

at a country house near the promontory of