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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
VERSE 41. And whereas thou sawest the feet

and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron,

the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall

be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch

as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

42. And as the toes of the feet were part of

iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be

partly strong, and partly broken.

The element of weakness symbolized by the

clay, pertained to the feet as well as to the toes.

Rome, before its division into ten kingdoms,

lost that iron tenacity which it possessed to a

superlative degree during the first centuries

of its career. Luxury, with its accompanying

effeminacy and degeneracy, the destroyer of

nations as well as of individuals, began to

corrode and weaken its iron sinews, and thus