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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
were political kingdoms. And now we have

but to inquire if any kingdom has arisen

among the ten kingdoms of the Roman empire

since A. D. 483, and yet diverse from them all;

and if so, what one. The answer is, Yes; the

spiritual kingdom of the papacy. This answers

to the symbol in every particular, as is easily

proved; and nothing else will do it. See the

specifications more particularly mentioned on

verse 23.

Daniel beheld this horn making war upon the

saints. Has such a war been waged by the

papacy? Fifty million martyrs, with a voice like

the sound of many waters, answer, Yes.

Witness the cruel persecutions of the

Waldenses, the Albigenses, and Protestants in

general, by the papal power. It is stated on

good authority that the persecutions,