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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
Antony became the brother-in-law of

Augustus by marrying his sister, Octavia.

Antony was sent into Egypt on government

business, but fell a victim to the arts and

charms of Cleopatra, Egypt’s dissolute queen.

So strong was the passion he conceived for

her, that he finally espoused the Egyptian

interests, rejected his wife, Octavia, to please

Cleopatra, bestowed province after province

upon the latter to gratify her avarice,

celebrated a triumph at Alexandria instead of

Rome, and otherwise so affronted the Roman

people that Augustus had no difficulty in

leading them to engage heartily in a war

against this enemy of their country. The war

was ostensibly against Egypt and Cleopatra;

but it was really against Antony, who now

stood at the head of Egyptian affairs. And the

true cause of their controversy was, says