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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
sweeping persecution against the truth and

the people of God. By these the “image of the

beast” is to be formed. These are to have what

will be to them a new experience, — the use of

the civil arm to enforce their dogmas. And it is

doubtless this first intoxication of power that

leads this branch of Babylon to cherish in her

heart the boast, “I sit a queen, and am no

widow;” that is, I am no longer χήρα, “one

bereaved,” or destitute of power, as I have

been; but now I rule like a queen; I shall see no

sorrow; God is in the Constitution; the church

is enthroned, and shall henceforth bear sway.

The expression, “Reward her even as she

rewarded you,” seems to show that the time

for this message to be given, and for the saints

to be called out, will be when she begins to

raise against them the arm of oppression. As

she fills up the cup of persecution to the saints,