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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
chapter, existed from the first. The division

of the Grecian kingdom, denoted by the four

horns of the goat and the four heads of the

leopard, dates back to within eight years of the

time when it was introduced into prophecy. So

Rome should have been divided from the first,

if the legs denote division, instead of

remaining a unit for nearly six hundred years,

and separating into its eastern and western

divisions only a few years prior to its final

disruption into ten kingdoms.

2. No such division into two great parts is

denoted by the other symbols under which

Rome is represented in the book of Daniel;

namely, the great and terrible beast of Daniel

7, and the little horn of chapter 8. Hence it is

reasonable to conclude that the two legs of the