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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
future literal kingdom of Christ’s glory so
often brought to view in both the Old
Testament and the New.
It may be objected again, that when the stone
smites the image, the iron, the brass, the
silver, and the gold are broken to pieces
together; hence the stone must have smitten
the image when all these parts were in
existence. In reply we ask, What is meant by
their being broken to pieces together? Does
the expression mean that the same persons
who constituted the kingdom of gold would be
alive when the image was dashed to pieces? —
No; else the image covers but the duration of a
single generation. Does it mean that that
would be a ruling kingdom? — No; for there is
a succession of kingdoms down to the fourth.
On the supposition, then, that the fifth
