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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
and much less from that of Genseric (who,

ere his death, had indeed visited and ravaged

the eternal city in one of his maritime

marauding expeditions, and thus yet more

prepared the coming consummation), about

this time, I say, Odoacer, chief of the Heruli, —

a barbarian remnant of the host of Attila, left

on the Alpine frontiers of Italy, — interposed

with his command that the name and the

office of Homan emperor of the West, should

be abolished. The authorities bowed in

submission to him. The last phantom of an

emperor — one whose name, Romulus

Augustus, was singularly calculated to bring in

contrast before the reflective mind the past

glories of Rome and its present degradation —

abdicated; and the senate sent away the

imperial insignia to Constantinople,

professing to the emperor of the East that one