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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
proportions, it crumbled to pieces, never to

be united again. The iron was mixed with the

clay. Its elements lost the power of cohesion,

and no man or combination of men can again

consolidate them. This point is so well set

forth by another that we take pleasure in

quoting his words: —

“From this, its divided state, the first strength

of the empire departed; but not as that of the

others had done. No other kingdom was to

succeed it, as it had the three which went

before it. It was to continue in this tenfold

division, until the kingdom of stone smote it

upon its feet, broke them in pieces, and

scattered them as the wind does the chaff of

the summer threshing-floor! Yet, through all

this time, a portion of its strength was to

remain. And so the prophet says, ‘And as the