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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
came in. The ecclesiastical power sought the

alliance of the secular. Troubles and

commotions were the result. The spirit of this

period perhaps reached its climax as we come

down to the days of Constantine, the first so-

called Christian emperor, whose conversion

to Christianity is dated by Mosheim in A. D.

323. — Ecclesiastical Commentaries.

Of this period, Dr. Rice remarks: “It represents

a secular period, or union of church and state.

Constantine aided the clergy, and put them

under obligations to him. He legislated for the

church, called the Council of Nicaea, and was

most prominent in that Council. Constantine,

not the gospel, had the glory of tearing down

the heathen temples. The state had the glory

instead of the church. Constantine made

decrees against some errors, and was praised,