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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
government was subverted, and Rome itself

was reduced from being the empress of the

world to a poor dukedom tributary to the

Exarch of Ravenna.

Under the heading, “Extinction of the Western

Empire, A. D. 476 or A. D. 479,” Elder J. Litch

(Prophetic Exposition, Vol. II, pp. 156-160)

quotes from Mr. Keith as follows: —

“The unfortunate Augustulus was made the

instrument of his own disgrace; and he

signified his resignation to the senate; and

that assembly, in their last act of obedience to

a Roman prince, still affected the spirit of

freedom and the forms of the constitution. An

epistle was addressed, by their unanimous

decree, to the emperor, Zeno, the son-in-law

and successor of Leo, who had lately been

restored, after a short rebellion, to the