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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
of jealousy and hatred; and the reproach of
barbarian was embittered by the more odious
epithet of heretic. The heroes of the North,
who had submitted, with some reluctance, to
believe that all their ancestors were in hell,
were astonished and exasperated to learn that
they themselves had only changed the mode
of their eternal condemnation.”
The reader is requested to consider carefully
a few more historical statements which throw
some light on the situation at this time.
Stanley (History of the Eastern Church, p. 151)
says: “The whole of the vast Gothic population
which descended on the Roman empire, so far
as it was Christian at all, held to the faith of the
Alexandrian heretic. Our first Teutonic
version of the Scriptures was by an Arian
missionary, Ulfilas. The first conqueror of
