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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
notice that the Catholics everywhere hailed

as deliverers the army of Belisarius, the

general of Justinian.

The testimony of D’Aubigné (Reformation,

book 1, chap. 1), also throws light upon the

undercurrents which gave shape to outward

movements in these eventful times. He says:

“Princes whom these stormy times often

shook upon their thrones, offered their

protection if Rome would in its turn support

them. They conceded to her the spiritual

authority, provided she would make a return

in secular power. They were lavish of the souls

of men, in the hope that she would aid them

against their enemies. The power of the

hierarchy, which was ascending, and the

imperial power, which was declining, leaned

thus one upon the other, and by this alliance