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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Appendix
on this point; but there has not been entire

unanimity among expositors as to the names

of the kingdoms which constituted these

divisions. Some name the Huns as one of these

divisions, others put the Alemanni in place of

the Huns. That the reader may see the general

trend of what has been written on this subject,

the following facts are presented: —

Machiavelli, the historian of Florence, writing

simply as a historian, names the Huns as one

of the nations principally concerned in the

breaking up of the Roman empire. Among

those who have written on this point with

reference to the prophecy, may be mentioned,

Berengaud, in the ninth century; Mede, 1586-

1638; Bossuet, 1627-1704; Lloyd, 1627-1717;

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727; Bishop Newton,