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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
not deal in dates at all, and then whatever

kingdom he finds within his specified time,

that he sets down as the fourth kingdom, and

endeavors to bend the prophecy to fit his

interpretation, utterly regardless of how

much better material he might find outside of

his little inclosure, to answer to a fulfillment of

the prophetic record. Is such a course logical?

Is the time the point to be first established? —

No; the kingdoms are the great features of the

prophecy, and we are to look for them; and

when we find them, we must accept them,

whatever may be their chronology or location.

Let them govern the time and place, not the

time and place govern them.

But that view which is the cause of all this

misapplication and confusion, is sheer

assumption. Christ did not smite the image at