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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
and giving no room for the divided state of

the Grecian empire as symbolized by the four

heads of the leopard of chapter 7, and the four

horns of the goat of chapter 8.

“Territorially,” continues Professor C., “it [the

fourth kingdom] should be sought in Western

Asia, not in Europe; in general, on the same

territory where the first, second, and third

kingdoms stood.” Why not in Europe, we ask?

Each of the first three kingdoms possessed

territory which was peculiarly its own. Why

not the fourth? Analogy requires that it

should. And was not the third kingdom a

European kingdom? that is, did it not rise on

European territory, and take its name from

the land of its birth? Why not, then, go a

degree farther west for the place where the

fourth great kingdom should be founded? And