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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
the fourth kingdom was Alexander’s

successors; (3) That the latest point to which

the fourth kingdom could extend, is the

manifestation of the Messiah; for (4) There the

God of heaven set up his kingdom; there the

stone smote the image upon its feet, and

commenced the process of grinding it up.

Nor can we reply at any great length to these

positions.

1. We might as well confine the Babylonian

empire to the single reign of Nebuchadnezzar,

or that of Persia to the reign of Cyrus, as to

confine the third kingdom, Grecia, to the reign

of Alexander.

2. Alexander’s successors did not constitute

another kingdom, but a continuation of the

same, the Grecian division of the image; for in

this line of prophecy the succession of