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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
empire; they were only the efforts of

individuals worshiping at the shrine of

ambition, to obtain supreme control of the

empire. The occasional petty revolts of distant

provinces, suppressed as with the power, and

almost with the speed, of thunderbolt, did not

constitute a division of the kingdom. And

these are all that can be pointed to as

interfering with the unity of the kingdom, for

more than three hundred years this side the

days of Christ. This one consideration is

sufficient to disprove forever the view that the

kingdom of God, which constitutes the fifth

kingdom of this series, as brought to view in

Daniel 2, was set up at the commencement of

the Christian era. But a thought more may be

in place.