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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
and till you have, nay, till the Catholics [this

name Theodoric applies to the Arians] are

restored to the free exercise of their religion,

and to all the churches from which they have

been driven, you must not think of returning

to Italy.” — Bower’s History of the Popes, Vol.

I, p. 325.

The pope who was thus peremptorily ordered

not to set his foot again upon Italian soil until

he had carried out the will of the king,

certainly could not hope for much

advancement toward any kind of supremacy

till that power was taken out of the way.

Baronius, according to Bower, will have it that

the pope sacrificed himself on this occasion,

and advised the emperor not by any means to

comply with the demand the king had sent

him. But Mr. Bower thinks this inconsistent,