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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
took place before this, and to make way for

this very exaltation to spiritual dominion. The

insuperable difficulty in the way of all

attempts to apply the prophecy to the

Lombards and the other powers named above

is, that they may come altogether too late in

point of time; for the prophecy deals with the

arrogant efforts of the Roman pontiff to gain

power, not with his endeavors to oppress and

humble the nations after he had secured the

supremacy.

The position is here confidently taken that the

three powers, or horns, plucked up before the

papacy, were the Heruli, the Vandals, and the

Ostrogoths; and this position rests upon the

following statements of historians.

Odoacer, the leader of the Heruli, was the first

of the barbarians who reigned over the