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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
introduced; and we do not find this till we

come to the feet and toes. But we are not to

understand that the clay denotes one division

and the iron the other; for after the long-

existing unity of the kingdom was broken, no

one of the fragments was as strong as the

original iron, but all were in a state of

weakness denoted by the mixture of iron and

clay. The conclusion is inevitable, therefore,

that the prophet has here stated the cause for

the effect. The introduction of the weakness of

the clay element, as we come to the feet,

resulted in the division of the kingdom into

ten parts, as represented by the ten toes; and

this result, or division, is more than intimated

in the sudden mention of a plurality of

contemporaneous kings. Therefore, while we

find no evidence that the legs denote division,

but serious objections against such a view, we