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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
desolation.” Medo-Persia was pagan; Grecia
was pagan; Rome in its first phase was pagan;
these all were embraced in the “daily.” Then
comes the papal form, — the “transgression of
desolation” — a marvel of craft and cunning,
an incarnation of fiendish blood-thirstiness
and cruelty. No wonder the cry has gone up
from suffering martyrs, from age to age, How
long, O Lord, how long? And no wonder the
Lord, in order that hope might not wholly die
out of the hearts of his down-trodden, waiting
people, has lifted before them the vail of
futurity, showing them the consecutive events
of the world’s history, till all these persecuting
powers shall meet an utter and everlasting
destruction, and giving them glimpses
beyond, of the unfading glories of their eternal
inheritance.
