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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
nations to embrace the gospel. The brevity

we have proposed to observe in this history

prevents our entering into an ample detail of

the dismal effects that arose from the progress

and the baneful influence of superstition,

which had now become universal.”

Again he says: “A whole volume would be

requisite to contain an enumeration of the

various frauds which artful knaves practiced

with success, to delude the ignorant, when

true religion was almost entirely superseded

by horrid superstition.” — Ecclesiastical

History, 4th cent., part 2, chap. 3.

This extract from Mosheim contains a

description of the period covered by the black

horse of the third seal that answers accurately

to the prophecy. It is seen by this how

paganism was incorporated into Christianity,