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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
                   the same power and the same work that is


               here  brought  to  view,  which  again  makes  it


               necessary to apply this growing horn to Rome.




               7. The little horn magnified himself even to the


               Prince of the host. Rome alone did this. In the


               interpretation  (verse  25)  this  is  called


               standing up against the Prince of princes How


               clear an allusion to the crucifixion of our Lord


               under the jurisdiction of the Romans.



               8.  By  the  little  horn  the  daily  sacrifice  was


               taken  away.  This  little  horn  must  be


               understood  to  symbolize  Rome  in  its  entire


               history, including  its  two  phases,  pagan  and


               papal.    These  two  phases  are  elsewhere


               spoken of as the “daily” (sacrifice is a supplied


               word) and the “transgression of desolation;”


               the  daily  (desolation)  signifying  the  pagan


               form, and the transgression of desolation, the
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