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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
Such considerations as these are calculated

to arouse in every mind a strong expectation

that this government will be found to have

some part to act in the carrying out of God’s

providential purposes in this world, and that

somewhere it will be spoken of in the

prophetic word.

2. The Chronology of This Power. — At what

period in this world’s history is the rise of this

power placed in the prophecy? On this point,

the foundation for the conclusions at which

we must arrive is already laid in the facts

elicited in reference to the preceding or

leopard beast. It was at the time when this

beast went into captivity, or was killed

(politically) with the sword (verse 10), or

(which we suppose to be the same thing) had

one of its heads wounded to death (verse 3),