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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
vengeance which they took on his memory,

when they tore from his massive tomb in

Ravenna the porphyry vase in which his Arian

subjects had enshrined his ashes. But these

feelings are put into language by Baronius,

who inveighs “against Theodoric as a cruel

barbarian, as a barbarous tyrant, as an

impious Arian.” But “having exaggerated with

all his eloquence, and bewailed the deplorable

condition of the Roman Church reduced by

that heretic to a state of slavery, he comforts

himself in the end, and dries up his tears, with

the pious thought that the author of such a

calamity died soon after, and was eternally

damned!” — Baronius’s Annals, A. D. 526, p.

116; Bower, Vol. III, p. 328.

While the Catholics were thus feeling the

restraining power of an Arian king in Italy,