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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
years. In the Low Countries fifty thousand

persons were hanged, beheaded, burned, and

buried alive, for the crime of heresy, within

the space of thirty-eight years from the edict

of Charles V against the Protestants to the

peace of Chateau Cambresis in 1559. Eighteen

thousand suffered by the hand of the

executioner in the space of five years and a

half, during the administration of the Duke of

Alva. Indeed, the slightest acquaintance with

the history of the papacy will convince any

one that what is here said of ‘making war with

the saints’ (verse 21), and ‘wearing out the

saints of the Most High’ (verse 25), is strictly

applicable to that power, and will accurately

describe its history.” (See Buck’s Theological

Dictionary, art., Persecutions; Oswald’s

Kingdom, etc., pp. 107-133; Dowling’s History

of Romanism; Fox’s Book of Martyrs;