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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
found that the forces which he had there left

under Scarpus to guard the frontier, had

declared for Caesar. Fourthly, being followed

by Caesar into Egypt, he was betrayed by

Cleopatra, and his forces surrendered to

Caesar. Hereupon, in rage and despair, he took

his own life.

VERSE 27. And both these kings’ hearts shall

be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at

one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the

end shall be at the time appointed.

Antony and Caesar were formerly in alliance.

Yet under the garb of friendship, they were

both aspiring and intriguing for universal

dominion. Their protestations of deference to,

and friendship for, each other, were the

utterances of hypocrites. They spoke lies at

one table. Octavia, the wife of Antony and