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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
The fallacy, however, which forms the basis

of this objection, is the view that the two legs

of the image do signify the separation of the

Roman empire into its eastern and western

divisions. To this view there are several

objections.

1. The two legs of iron symbolize Rome, not

merely during its closing years, but from the

very beginning of its existence as a nation; and

if these legs denote division, the kingdom

should have been divided from the very

commencement of its history. This claim is

sustained by the other symbols. Thus the

division (that is, the two elements) of the

Persian kingdom, denoted by the two horns of

the ram (Daniel 8:20), also by the elevation of

the bear upon one side (Daniel 7:5,) and

perhaps by the two arms of the image of this