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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
power working assiduously behind the

scenes to secure their own purposes. The

relation which these Arian kings sustained to

the pope, from which we can see the necessity

of their being overthrown to make way for

papal supremacy, is shown in the following

testimony from Mosheim, given in his History

of the Church, cent. 6, part 2, chap. 2, sec. 2: —

“On the other hand, it is certain, from a variety

of the most authentic records, that both the

emperors and the nations in general were far

from being disposed to bear with patience the

yoke of servitude which the popes were

imposing upon the Christian church. The

Gothic princes set bounds to the power of

those arrogant prelates in Italy, permitted

none to be raised to the pontificate without

their approbation, and reserved to themselves