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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
prepared the way for its subsequent

disruption into ten kingdoms.

The iron legs of the image terminate, to

maintain the consistency of the figure, in feet

and toes. To the toes, of which there were of

course just ten, our attention is called by the

explicit mention of them in the prophecy; and

the kingdom represented by that portion of

the image to which the toes belonged, was

finally divided into ten parts. The question

therefore naturally arises, Do the ten toes of

the image represent the ten final divisions of

the Roman empire? To those who prefer what

seems to be a natural and straightforward

interpretation of the word of God, it is a matter

of no little astonishment that any question

should here be raised. To take the ten toes to

represent the ten kingdoms into which Rome