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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
The foundation for a volume is laid in verse

7, just quoted; but we are compelled to treat it

the more briefly here, because anything like a

full history is entirely beyond the space that

can be allowed in this brief exposition. This

beast, of course, corresponds to the fourth

division of the great image — the legs of iron.

Under chapter 2:40 are given some reasons

for supposing this power to be Rome. The

same reasons are applicable to the present

prophecy. How accurately Rome answered to

the iron division of the image! How accurately

it answers to the beast before us! In the dread

and terror which it inspired, and in its

exceeding strength, the world has never seen

its equal. It devoured as with iron teeth, and

brake in pieces; and it ground the nations into

the very dust beneath its brazen feet. It had

ten horns, which are explained in verse 24 to