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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
nay, more, there was an approach to

mingling in both cases. But it was to be

abortive. And how marked the emphasis with

which history affirms this declaration of the

word of God!” — Wm. Newton, Lectures on the

First Two Visions of the Book of Daniel, pp. 34-

36.

Yet with all these facts before them, asserting

the irresistible power of God’s providence

through the overturnings and changes of

centuries, the efforts of warriors, and the

diplomacy and intrigues of courts and kings,

some modern expositors have manifested

such a marvelous misapprehension of this

prophecy as to predict a future universal

kingdom, and point to a European ruler, even

now of waning years and declining prestige, as

the “destined monarch of the world.” Vain is