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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
contemporaneously. It cannot refer to the

four preceding kingdoms; for it would be

absurd to use such language in reference to a

line of successive kings, since it would be in

the days of the last king only, not in the clays

of any of the preceding, that the kingdom of

God would be set up.

Here, then, is a division presented; and what

have we in the symbol to indicate it? —

Nothing but the toes of the image. Unless they

do it, we are left utterly in the dark as to the

nature and extent of the division which the

prophecy shows did exist. To suppose this,

would be to cast a serious imputation upon

the prophecy itself. We are therefore held to

the conclusion that the ten toes of the image

denote the ten parts into which the Roman

empire was divided. *