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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 8 – Vision of the Ram, He-Goat & Little Horn
eve of this engagement, Darius sent ten of

his chief relatives to sue for peace; and upon

their presenting their conditions to

Alexander, he replied, “Tell your sovereign...

that the world will not permit two suns nor

two sovereigns!”

The language of verse 7 sets forth the

completeness of the subjection of Medo-

Persia to Alexander. The two horns were

broken, and the ram was cast to the ground

and stamped upon. Persia was subdued, the

country ravaged, its armies cut to pieces and

scattered, its cities plundered, and the royal

city of Persepolis, the capital of the Persian

empire, and even in its ruins one of the

wonders of the world to the present day, was

sacked and burned. Thus the ram had no