Page 10 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four

beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny,

and three measures of barley for a penny; and

see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

How rapidly the work of corruption

progresses! What a contrast in color between

this symbol and the first one: A black horse —

the very opposite of white! A period of great

darkness and moral corruption in the church

must be denoted by this symbol. By the events

of the second seal the way was fully opened

for that state of things to be brought about

which is here presented. The time that

intervened between the reign of Constantine

and the establishment of the papacy in A. D.

538 may be justly noted as the time when the

darkest errors and grossest superstitions