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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
(A. D. 552), achieved ‘the conquest of Rome,’

and the fate of the senate was sealed.”

Elliott (Horae Apocalypticae, Vol. I, pp. 357-

360) speaks of the fulfillment of this portion of

the prophecy in the extinction of the Western

empire, as follows: —

“Thus was the final catastrophe preparing, by

which the Western emperors and empire

were to become extinct. The glory of Rome

had long departed; its provinces one after

another been rent from it; the territory still

attached to it become like a desert; and its

maritime possessions, and its fleets and

commerce been annihilated. Little remained

to it but the vain titles and insignia of

sovereignty. And now the time was come

when these too were to be withdrawn. Some

twenty years or more from the death of Attila,