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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
caricatured; it is loaded with traditions; it is

turned into mummery and superstition; it is

cast down and obscured.

And this anti-Christian power has “practiced,”

— practiced its deceptions upon the people,

practiced its schemes of cunning to carry out

its own ends and aggrandize its own power.

And it has “prospered.” It has made war with

the saints, and prevailed against them. It has

run its allotted career, and is soon to be

broken without hand, to be given to the

burning flame, and to perish in the consuming

glories of the second appearing of our Lord.

Rome meets all the specifications of the

prophecy. No other power does meet them.

Hence Rome, and no other, is the power in

question. And while the descriptions given in

the word of God of the character of this