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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
Mr. Mede supposes the three kingdoms

plucked up to have been the Greeks, the

Lombards, and the Franks; and Sir Isaac

Newton supposes they were the Exarchate of

Ravenna, the Lombards, and the Senate and

Dukedom of Rome. Bishop Newton

(Dissertation on the Prophecies, pp. 217, 218)

states some serious objections to both these

schemes. The Franks could not have been one

of these kingdoms; for they were never

plucked up before the papacy. The Lombards

could not have been one; for they were never

made subject to the popes. Says Barnes, “I do

not find, indeed, that the kingdom of the

Lombards was, as is commonly stated, among

the number of the temporal sovereignties that

became subject to the authority of the popes.”

And the Senate and Dukedom of Rome could

not have been one; for they, as such, never