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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
abolishing that office, Theodoric himself
‘congratulates those annual favorites of
fortune, who, without the cares, enjoyed the
splendor of the throne.’
“But, in their prophetic order, the consulship
and the senate of Rome met their fate, though
they fell not by the hands of Vandals or of
Goths. The next revolution in Italy was in
subjection to Belisarius, the general of
Justinian, emperor of the East. He did not
spare what barbarians had hallowed. ‘The
Roman Consulship Extinguished by Justinian,
A. D. 541,’ is the title of the last paragraph of
the fortieth chapter of Gibbon’s History of the
Decline and Fall of Rome. ‘The succession of
the consuls finally ceased in the thirteenth
year of Justinian, whose despotic temper
might be gratified by the silent extinction of a
