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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
that John saw the two-horned beast coming

up. If the leopard beast, as we have

conclusively proved, signifies the papacy, and

the going into captivity met its fulfillment in

the temporary overthrow of the popedom by

the French in 1798, then we have the time

definitely specified when we are to look for

the rise of this power. The expression “coming

up” must signify that the power to which it

applies was but newly organized, and was

then just rising into prominence and

influence. The power represented by this

symbol must, then, be some power which in

1798 stood in this position before the world.

And in what condition stood the United States

of America at that time? Macmillan and Co.,

the London publishers, in announcing their

Statesman’s Year Book for 1867, make an