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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                          Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
                   horses, or were crushed under the weight of


               rolling wagons; and their unburied limbs were


               abandoned on public roads, as a prey to dogs


               and vultures.




               “It was the boast of Attila that the grass never


               grew  on  the  spot  which  his  horse  had  trod.


               The  Western  emperor  with  the  senate  and


               people  of  Rome,  humbly  and  fearfully


               deprecated  the  wrath  of  Attila.  And  the


               concluding  paragraph of  the  chapters  which


               record  his  history,  is  entitled,  ‘Symptoms  of


               the  Decay  and  Ruin  of  the  Roman


               Government.’ ‘The name of the star is called


               Wormwood.’” — Keith.



               VERSE 12. And the fourth angel sounded, and


               the third part of the sun was smitten, and the


               third part of the moon, and the third part of


               the  stars;  so  as  the  third  part  of  them  was
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