1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

CHRIST'I SLCOXD COMING. 95
thia mean the guvements or kinge, e~tabliehed
on the f of the Roman empire in the west, by the
Huns, Gotha and Vandab of tho north. U By sanctuary of
strength," is meant Rome. And it is said that at the
time that Rome was taken, men, women, and children
were'sacrificed to their P deities. "And shall
take away the daily sacrilicey~he angel ia giving u
a history of what these kinga would do, when Rome
should be divided into its ten toea, or when the ten how
should arise, which the 1 has heretofore explained
to mean ten kings, ~aTvii. l. This ia evident by
his using the plural pronoun instead of the singular, as
before, or as he will follo~ving, when the little horn obiaim
the power. To 6 take away the daily sacrifice,"
means to destroy Paganism out of the ki dom. - Thia
was done by those ten kmga who now rulsthe Roman
empire, and would for a little seaeon, until they should
give their power to the image b& "And they shall
place tho abomination that maketh desolate." They,
meaning the ten kings, ahdl place, ahall put in the room
or p h of the &1y m$ce or Pagan beast which would
now receive its death wound by the sword, that is, by the
civil power of this fourth kingdom, under the reign&
power of these ten kings ; for John tells us, Rev. xvi~
l2,13, U And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten
kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but
ohaU receive power as kin@ one hour with the beast;
these have one mind, (being all Pagans,) and shall give
their wer.and strength unto the beast ;* that is, to sup
port $.gam Now, thia wu evidently fuliilled ; for
after the fall of the Weetern Empire, A. D. 476, and before
A. D. 490, ten kinq had risen upon the ruins, and
formed ten separate k~ngdom, the names of which I
space of twent years, Clovis, the king of France, having
beep converdand ba tized in the year A. D. 496. By,
the year A. D. 508, de remainder of the kinga were
brought over and embraced the Christian rebon, which
closes the history of the Pagan beaat, whom number