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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
power, and that in reaching this position it

would subdue three kings.

Some difference of opinion has existed in

regard to the particular powers which were

overthrown in the interest of the papacy, in

reference to which the following remark by

Albert Barnes seems very pertinent: “In the

confusion that existed on the breaking up of

the Roman empire, and the imperfect

accounts of the transactions which occurred

in the rise of the papal power, it would not be

wonderful if it should be difficult to find

events distinctly recorded that would be in all

respects an accurate and absolute fulfillment

of the vision. Yet it is possible to make out the

fulfillment of this with a good degree of

certainty in the history of the papacy.” —

Notes on Daniel 7.