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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
how did Grecia ever occupy the territory of

the first and second kingdoms? — Only by

conquest. And Rome did the same. Hence, so

far as the territorial requirements of the

professor’s theory are concerned, Rome could

be the fourth kingdom as truthfully as Grecia

could be the third.

“Politically,” he adds, “it should be the

immediate successor of Alexander’s empire,...

changing the dynasty, but not the nations.”

Analogy is against him here. Each of the first

three kingdoms was distinguished by its own

peculiar nationality. The Persian was not the

same as the Babylonian, nor the Grecian the

same as either of the two that preceded it.

Now analogy requires that the fourth

kingdom, instead of being composed of a

fragment of this Grecian empire, should