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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
condition in life, was exempt from her
relentless rage. “When Herod died,” says a
forcible writer, “he went down to the grave
with infamy; and earth had one murderer, one
persecutor, less, and hell one victim more. O
Rome! what will not be thy hell, and that of thy
votaries, when thy judgment shall have
come!”
3. And shall “think to change times and laws.”
What laws? and whose? Not the laws of other
earthly governments; for it was nothing
marvelous or strange for one power to change
the laws of another, whenever it could bring
such power under its dominion. Not human
laws of any kind; for the little horn had power
to change these so far as its jurisdiction
extended; but the times and laws in question
were such as this power should only think to
