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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
constituted one of the ten kingdoms, three of

which were to be plucked up before the little

horn.

But we apprehend that the chief difficulty in

the application made by these eminent

commentators, lay in the fact that they

supposed that the prophecy respecting the

exaltation of the papacy had not been fulfilled,

and could not have been, till the pope became

a temporal prince; and hence they sought to

find an accomplishment of the prophecy in the

events which led to the pope’s temporal

sovereignty. Whereas, evidently, the prophecy

of verses 24, 25 refers, not to his civil power,

but to his power to domineer over the minds

and consciences of men; and the pope reached

this position, as will hereafter appear, in A. D.

538; and the plucking up of the three horns