Page 16 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
and how, during this period, the false system

which resulted in the establishment of the

papacy, rapidly rounded out to its full outlines,

and ripened into all its deplorable perfection

of strength and stature.

The Balances. — “The balances denoted that

religion and civil power would be united in the

person who would administer the executive

power in the government, and that he would

claim the judicial authority both in church and

state. This was true among the Roman

emperors from the days of Constantine until

the reign of Justinian, when he gave the same

judicial power to the bishop of Rome.” —

Miller’s Lectures, p. 181.

The Wheat and Barley. — “The measures of

wheat and barley for a penny denote that the

members of the church would be eagerly