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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
kingdoms is by conquest. When Persia had

conquered Babylon, we had the second

empire; and when Grecia had conquered

Persia, we had the third. But Alexander’s

successors (his four leading generals) did not

conquer his empire, and erect another in its

place; they simply divided among themselves

the empire which Alexander had conquered,

and left ready to their hand.

“Chronologically,” says Professor C., “the

fourth empire must immediately succeed

Alexander, and lie entirely between him and

the birth of Christ.” Chronologically, we reply,

it must do no such thing; for the birth of Christ

was not the introduction of the fifth kingdom,

as will in due time appear. Here he overlooks

almost the entire duration of the third division

of the image, confounding it with the fourth,