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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
that work we are chiefly indebted for the

extracts given below.

Mr. Keith has very justly remarked on the

subject of this prophecy: —

“None could elucidate the texts more clearly,

or expound them more fully, than the task has

been performed by Gibbon. The chapters of

the skeptical philosopher that treat directly of

the matter, need but a text to be prefixed, and

a few unholy words to be blotted out, to form

a series of expository lectures on the eighth

and ninth chapters of Revelation.” “Little or

nothing is left for the professed interpreter to

do but to point to the pages of Gibbon.”

The first sore and heavy judgment which fell

on Western Rome in its downward course,

was the war with the Goths under Alaric, who

opened the way for later inroads. After the