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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
noise and garments rolled in blood,” told of
the force and violence with which one nation
had been brought into subjection to another.
Yet all this is not called “smiting” or “breaking
in pieces.”
When Persia conquered Babylon, and Greece
Persia, neither of the conquered empires is
said to have been broken in pieces, though
crushed beneath the overwhelming power of
a hostile nation. But when we reach the
introduction of the fifth kingdom, the image is
smitten with violence; it is dashed to pieces,
and so scattered and obliterated that no place
is found for it. And now what shall we
understand by this? — We must understand
that here a scene transpires in which is
manifested so much more violence and force
and power than accompany the overthrow of
