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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
nations sat in the dust, like a second

Babylon, and there was no throne where the

Caesars had reigned. The last act of obedience

to a Roman prince which that once august

assembly performed, was the acceptance of

the resignation of the last emperor of the

West, and the abolition of the imperial

succession in Italy. The sun of Rome was

smitten....

“A new conqueror of Italy, Theodoric, the

Ostrogoth, speedily arose, who

unscrupulously assumed the purple, and

reigned by right of conquest. ‘The royalty of

Theodoric was proclaimed by the Goths

(March 5, A. D. 493), with the tardy, reluctant,

ambiguous consent of the emperor of the

East.’ The imperial Roman power, of which

either Rome or Constantinople had been