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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
resolution to issue the like edict against

those of his [that is, the Catholics]; and to see

it everywhere executed with the same rigor.

Those who do not profess the faith of Nicaea

are heretics to him, and those who do are

heretics to me. Whatever can excuse or justify

his severity to the former, will excuse and

justify mine to the latter. But the emperor,”

continued the king, “has none about him who

dare freely and openly speak what they think,

or to whom he would hearken if they did. But

the great veneration which he professes for

your See, leaves no room to doubt but he

would hearken to you. I will therefore have

you to repair forthwith to Constantinople, and

there to remonstrate, both in my name and

your own, against the violent measures in

which that court has so rashly engaged. It is in

your power to divert the emperor from them;