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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
Romans. He took the throne of Italy,

according to Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the

Roman Empire, Vol. III, pp. 510, 515), in 476.

Of his religious belief Gibbon (p. 516) says.

“Like the rest of the barbarians, he had been

instructed in the Arian heresy; but he revered

the monastic and episcopal characters, and

the silence of the Catholics attests the

toleration which they enjoyed.”

Again he says (p. 547): “The Ostrogoths, the

Burgundians, the Suevi, and the Vandals, who

had listened to the eloquence of the Latin

clergy, preferred the more intelligible lessons

of their domestic teachers; and Arianism was

adopted as the national faith of the warlike

converts who were seated on the ruins of the

Western empire. This irreconcilable

difference of religion was a perpetual source