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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
Rome, Alaric, and the first conqueror of

Africa, Genseric, were Arians. Theodoric, the

great king of Italy, and hero of the ‘Nibelungen

Lied,’ was an Arian. The vacant place in his

massive tomb at Ravenna is a witness of the

vengeance which the Orthodox took on his

memory, when, in their triumph, they tore

down the porphyry vase in which his Arian

subjects had enshrined his ashes.”

Ranke, in his History of the Popes (London,

edition of 1871), Vol. I, p. 9, says: “But she [the

church] fell, as was inevitable, into many

embarrassments, and found herself in an

entirely altered condition. A pagan people

took possession of Britain; Arian kings seized

the greater part of the remaining West; while

the Lombards, long attached to Arianism, and,

as neighbors, most dangerous and hostile,