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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
VERSE 43. And whereas thou sawest iron

mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle

themselves with the seed of men; but they

shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is

not mixed with clay.

With Rome fell the last of the universal

empires belonging to this world in its present

state. Heretofore the elements of society had

been such that it was possible for one nation,

rising superior to its neighbors in prowess,

bravery, and the science of war, to attach them

one after another to its chariot wheels till all

were consolidated into one vast empire, and

one man seated upon the dominant throne

could send forth his will as law to all the

nations of the earth. When Rome fell, such

possibilities forever passed away. Crushed

beneath the weight of its own vast