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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
In corroboration of these facts, fifty million

martyrs — this is the lowest computation

made by any historian — will rise up in the

judgment as witnesses against her bloody

work.

Pagan Rome persecuted relentlessly the

Christian church, and it is estimated that three

million Christians perished in the first three

centuries, yet it is said that the primitive

Christians prayed for the continuance of

imperial Rome; for they knew that when this

form of government should cease, another far

worse persecuting power would arise, which

would literally, as this prophecy declares,

“wear out the saints of the Most High.” Pagan

Rome could slay the infants, but spare the

mothers; but papal Rome slew both mothers

and infants together. No age, no sex, no