Page 90 - 02 The Great Image

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
and oppressed by the arrogant and

triumphant powers of earth from that day to

this! And this is the smiting of the image! this

is the breaking of it into pieces, and violently

removing the shattered fragments from the

face of the earth! Was ever absurdity more

absurd?

From this digression we return to the inquiry,

Do the toes represent the ten divisions of the

Roman empire? We answer, Yes; because, —

1. The image of chapter 2 is exactly parallel

with the vision of the four beasts of chapter 7.

The fourth beast of chapter 7 represents the

same as the iron legs of the image. The ten

horns of the beast, of course, correspond very

naturally to the ten toes of the image; and

these horns are plainly declared to be ten

kings which should arise; and they are just as