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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
Odoacer himself governed Italy under a title

(that of patrician) conferred on him by the

Eastern emperor. And as regarded the more

distant Western provinces, or at least

considerable districts in them, the tie which

had united them to the Roman empire was not

altogether severed. There was still a certain,

though often faint, recognition of the supreme

imperial authority. The moon and the stars

might seem still to shine on the West with a

dim reflected light. In the course of the events,

however, which rapidly followed one on the

other in the next half century, these, too, were

extinguished. Theodoric, the Ostrogoth, on

destroying the Heruli and their kingdom at

Rome and Ravenna, ruled in Italy from A. D.

493 to 526 as an independent sovereign; and

on Belisarius’s and Narses’s conquest of Italy

from the Ostrogoths (a conquest preceded by