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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
empire break up into countless petty

fragments? Why into just four parts, and no

more? — Because the prophecy had said that

there should be four. The leopard had four

heads, the rough goat four horns, the kingdom

was to have four divisions; and thus it was.

(See more fully on chapter 8.)

VERSE 7. After this I saw in the night visions,

and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and

terrible, and strong exceedingly: and it had

great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in

pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet

of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that

were before it; and it had ten horns.

Inspiration finds no beast in nature which it

can make even the basis of a symbol to

represent the power here illustrated. No

addition of hoofs, heads, horns, wings, scales,