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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
“Vicegerent of the Son of God,” “Our Lord

God, the Pope,” “Another God upon earth,”

“King of the world,” “King of kings and Lord of

lords.” Said Pope Nicholas to Emperor

Michael, “The pope, who is called God by

Constantine, can never be bound or released

by man; for God cannot be judged by man.” Is

there need of bolder blasphemy than this?

Listen also to the adulation the popes have

received from their followers without rebuke.

A Venetian prelate in the fourth session of the

Lateran, addressed the pope as follows: “Thou

art our Shepherd, our Physician, in short, a

second God upon earth.” Another bishop

called him “the lion of the tribe of Judah, the

promised Saviour.” Lord Anthony Pucci, in the

fifth Lateran, said to the pope, “The sight of thy

divine majesty does not a little terrify me; for

I am not ignorant that all power both in