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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
in its youth? England was not, nor was

France, nor Russia, nor any European power.

For a young and rising power at that epoch, we

are obliged to turn our eyes to the New World.

But as soon as we turn them to this continent,

they rest inevitably upon this country as the

power in question. No other power this side of

the ocean is entitled to any mention in

comparison with it.

4. Location of the Two-horned Beast. — A

single declaration of the prophecy is sufficient

to guide us to important and correct

conclusions on this point. John calls it

“another beast.” It is a symbol in addition to,

and different from, the papal beast which the

prophet had just had under consideration;

that is, it symbolizes a power separate and

distinct from that which is denoted by the