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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 8 – The Seven Trumpets
wars and desolations in which Italy, and

above all its seven-hilled city, were for a time

almost made desert), the Roman senate was

dissolved, the consulship abrogated.

Moreover, as regards the barbaric princes of

the Western provinces, their independence of

the Roman imperial power became now more

distinctly averred and understood. After

above a century and a half of calamities

unexampled almost, as Dr. Robertson most

truly represents it, in the history of nations,

the statement of Jerome, — a statement

couched under the very Apocalyptic figure of

the text, but prematurely pronounced on the

first taking of Rome by Alaric, — might be

considered as at length accomplished:

‘Clarissimum terrarum lumen extinctum est,’

‘The world’s glorious sun has been

extinguished;’ and that, too, which our own