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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                            ~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

                                             Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
                   dream  appeared  to  him  in  which  he  was


               bidden “not to shrink from the execution of his


               design;  for  by  assisting  the  Christians  he


               would overthrow the power of the Vandals.”


               —  Evagrius’s  Ecclesiastical  History,  Book


               chap. 16.




               Listen again to Mosheim: “It is true that the


               Greeks who had received the decrees of the


               Council  of  Nicaea  [that  is,  the  Catholics],


               persecuted  and  oppressed  the  Arians


               wherever their influence and authority could


               reach; but the Nicenians, in their turn, were


               not  less  rigorously  treated  by  their


               adversaries [the Arians], particularly in Africa


               and  Italy,  where  they  felt,  in  a  very  severe


               manner, the weight of the Arian power, and


               the  bitterness  of  hostile  resentment.  The


               triumphs  of  Arianism  were,  however,
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