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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
that were eradicated from before the pope
out of the list first given; namely, the Heruli
under Odoacer, the Vandals, and the
Ostrogoths.” — Vol. III, p. 152, note 1.
Although he prefers the second list, in which
he puts the Lombards instead of the Heruli,
the foregoing is good testimony that if we
make the enumeration of the ten kingdoms
while the Heruli were a ruling power, they
were one of the horns which were plucked up.
From the historical testimony above cited, we
think it clearly established that the three
horns plucked up were the powers named;
viz., the Heruli in A. D. 493, the Vandals in 534,
and the Ostrogoths in 538.
1. “He shall speak great words against the
Most High.” Has the papacy done this? Look at
a few of the pope’s self-accepted titles: