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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
gain by alliance what he could not gain by

force; i.e., to build up one mighty, consolidated

empire. And did he succeed? — Nay. The very

power with which he was allied, proved his

destruction, in the troops of Blucher, on the

field of Waterloo! The iron would not mingle

with clay. The ten kingdoms continue still.

“And yet, if as the result of these alliances or of

other causes, that number is sometimes

disturbed, it need not surprise us. It is, indeed,

just what the prophecy seems to call for. The

iron was ‘mixed with the clay.’ For a season, in

the image, you might not distinguish between

them. But they would not remain so. ‘They

shall not cleave one to another.’ The nature of

the substances forbids them to do so in the

one case; the word of prophecy in the other.

Yet there was to be an attempt to mingle —