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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
convert from paganism. He reigned to A. D.

514. He found his way to the papal chair, says

Hu Pin, by striving with his competitor even

unto blood. He received adulation as the

successor of St. Peter, and struck the key-note

of papal assumption by presuming to

excommunicate the emperor Anastasius. The

most servile flatterers of the pope now began

to maintain that he was constituted judge in

the place of God, and that he was the

vicegerent of the Most High.

Such was the direction in which events were

tending in the West. What posture did affairs

at the same time assume in the East? A strong

papal party now existed in all parts of the

empire. The adherents of this cause in

Constantinople, encouraged by the success of

their brethren in the West, deemed it safe to