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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
“Alaric again stretched his ravages over

Italy. During four years the Goths ravaged and

reigned over it without control. And, in the

pillage and fire of Rome, the streets of the city

were filled with dead bodies; the flames

consumed many public and private buildings;

and the ruins of a palace remained (after a

century and a half) a stately monument of the

Gothic conflagration.

“The concluding sentence of the thirty-third

chapter of Gibbon’s History is of itself a clear

and comprehensive commentary; for in

winding up his own description of this brief

but most eventful period, he concentrates, as

in a parallel reading, the sum of the history

and the substance of the prediction. But the

words which precede it are not without their

meaning: ‘The public devotion of the age was