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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
title which admonished the Romans of their

ancient freedom.’ The third part of the sun

was smitten, and the third part of the moon,

and the third part of the stars. In the political

firmament of the ancient world, while under

the reign of imperial Rome, the emperorship,

the consulate, and the senate shone like the

sun, the moon, and the stars. The history of

their decline and fall is brought down till the

two formerwere ‘extinguished,’ in reference

to Rome and Italy, which so long had ranked

as the first of cities and of countries; and

finally, as the fourth trumpet closes, we see

the ‘extinction of that illustrious assembly,’

the Roman senate. The city that had ruled the

world, as if in mockery of human greatness,

was conquered by the eunuch Narses, the

successor of Belisarius. He defeated the Goths