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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
‘They shall mingle themselves with the seed
of men;’ i.e., marriages shall be formed, in
hope thus to consolidate their power, and, in
the end, to unite these divided kingdoms into
one.
“And shall this device succeed? — No. The
prophet answers: ‘They shall not cleave one to
another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.’
And the history of Europe is but a running
commentary on the exact fulfillment of these
words. From the time of Canute to the present
age, it has been the policy of reigning
monarchs, the beaten path which they have
trodden in order to reach a mightier scepter
and a wider sway. And the most signal
instance of it which history has recorded in
our own day, is in the case of Napoleon. He
ruled in one of the kingdoms.... He sought to
