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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
sprung up in the church. Of a period

immediately succeeding the days of

Constantine, Mosheim says: —

“Those vain fictions, which an attachment to

the Platonic philosophy and to popular

opinions had engaged the greatest part of the

Christian doctors to adopt before the time of

Constantine, were now confirmed, enlarged,

and embellished in various ways. Hence arose

that extravagant veneration for departed

saints, and those absurd notions of a certain

fire destined to purify separate souls, that now

prevailed, and of which the public marks were

everywhere to be seen. Hence also the

celibacy of priests, the worship of images and

relics, which in process of time almost utterly

destroyed the Christian religion, or at least

eclipsed its luster, and corrupted its very