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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
point. One kingdom did this, and one only,

and that was Rome. It conquered Grecia; it

subdued all things; like iron, it broke in pieces

and bruised. Gibbon, following the symbolic

imagery of Daniel, thus describes this empire:

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“The arms of the Republic, sometimes

vanquished in battle, always victorious in war,

advanced with rapid steps to the Euphrates,

the Danube, the Rhine, and the ocean, and the

images of gold, or silver, or brass, that might

serve to represent the nations or their kings,

were successively broken by the iron

monarchy of Rome.”

At the opening of the Christian era, this empire

took in the whole south of Europe, France,

England, the greater part of the Netherlands,

Switzerland, and the south of Germany,