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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
do find, we think, good reason for supposing

that the toes denote division, as here claimed.

3. Each of the four monarchies had its own

particular territory, which was the kingdom

proper, and where we are to look for the chief

events in its history shadowed forth by the

symbol. We are not, therefore, to look for the

divisions of the Roman empire in the territory

formerly occupied by Babylon, or Persia, or

Grecia, but in the territory proper of the

Roman kingdom, which was what was finally

known as the Western empire. Rome

conquered the world; but the kingdom of

Rome proper lay west of Grecia. That is what

was represented by the legs of iron. There,

then, we look for the ten kingdoms; and there

we find them. We are not obliged to mutilate