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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
since he could not, he says, “sacrifice himself

without sacrificing, at the same time, the far

greater part of the innocent Catholics in the

West, who were either subject to King

Theodoric, or to other Arian princes in

alliance with him.” It is certain that the pope

and the other ambassadors were treated with

severity on their return, which Bower

explains on this wise: “Others arraign them all

of high treason; and truly the chief men of

Rome were suspected at this very time of

carrying on a treasonable correspondence

with the court of Constantinople, and

machinating the ruin of the Gothic empire in

Italy.” — Id., p. 326.

The feelings of the papal party toward

Theodoric may be accurately estimated,

according to a quotation already given, by the