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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
“It is certain that the Roman empire was
divided into ten kingdoms; and though they
might be sometimes more and sometimes
fewer, yet they were still known by the name
of the ten kingdoms of the Western empire.”
Thus the subject is cleared of all difficulty.
Time has fully developed this great image in
all its parts. Most strictly does it represent the
important political events it was designed to
symbolize. It stands complete upon its feet.
Thus it has been standing for over fourteen
hundred years. It waits to be smitten upon the
feet by the stone cut out of the mountain
without hand, that is, the kingdom of Christ.
This is to be accomplished when the Lord shall
be revealed in flaming fire, taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. (See
