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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
answers admirably to the prophecy in every

particular, be allowed to be the kingdom in

question. The position that the kingdom of

God was set up in the days when Christ was

upon earth, must, these interpreters seem to

think, be maintained at all hazards.

Such is the ground on which some expositors

appear, at least, to reason. And it is for the

purpose of maintaining this theory that our

author dwindles down the third great empire

of the world to the insignificant period of

about eight years! For this, he endeavors to

prove that the fourth universal empire was

bearing full sway during a period when the

providence of God was simply filling up the

outlines of the third! For this, he presumes to

fix the points of time between which we must

look for the fourth, though the prophecy does