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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 17 – Babylon, the Mother
Why, then, should he be astonished, as he

looked forward, and saw Rome still

persecuting the saints? The secret of his

wonder was just this: all the persecution he

had witnessed had been from pagan Rome, the

open enemy of Christ. It was not strange that

pagans should persecute Christ’s followers;

but when he looked forward, and saw a church

professedly Christian persecuting the

followers of the Lamb, and drunken with their

blood, he could but wonder with great

amazement.

VERSE 8. The beast that thou sawest was, and

is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless

pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell

on the earth shall wonder, whose names were

not written in the book of life from the

foundation of the world, when they behold the