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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