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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
transitory, and its prosperous days were

entirely eclipsed when the Vandals were

driven out of Africa, and the Goths out of Italy,

by the arms of Justinian.” — Mosheim’s

Church History, cent. 6, part 2, chap. 5, sec. 3.

Elliott, in his Horae Apocalypticae, makes two

enumerations of the ten kingdoms which rose

out of the Roman empire, varying the second

list from the first according to the changes

which had taken place at the later period to

which the second list applies. His first list

differs from that mentioned in remarks on

chap. 2:42, only in that he put the Allemanni in

place of the Huns, and the Bavarians in place

of the Lombards, a variation which can be

easily accounted for. But out of this list he

names the three that were plucked up before

the papacy, in these words: “I might cite three