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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
jointly or singly the seat, whether in the

West or the East, was no longer recognized in

Italy, and the third part of the sun was smitten,

till it emitted no longer the faintest rays. The

power of the Caesars was unknown in Italy;

and a Gothic king reigned over Rome.

“But though the third part of the sun was

smitten, and the Roman imperial power was

at an end in the city of the Caesars, yet the

moon and the stars still shone, or glimmered,

for a little longer in the Western empire, even

in the midst of Gothic darkness. The

consulship and the senate [“the moon and the

stars”] were not abolished by Theodoric. ‘A

Gothic historian applauds the consulship of

Theodoric as the height of all temporal power

and greatness;’ — as the moon reigns by night,

after the setting of the sun. And instead of