The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it:
and it was diverse from all the beasts that were
before it.” (Daniel 7:2-7)
Such is a part of the vision. Daniel was grieved
and troubled, and he asked one of “them that stood
by,” “the truth of all this.” He was told that the
great beasts are “four kings which shall arise out of
the earth.” Not content with this answer he said: “I
would know the truth of the fourth beast, which
was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful,
whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass;
which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the
residue with his feet.... Thus he said, The fourth
beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth,
which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth, and tread it down,
and brake it in pieces.” (Daniel 7:19, 23, R. V.)
Now these four kingdoms are named outright in
other places in the Bible. They were Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome. Rome was the
fourth, and was diverse from all before it, in that it
was a republic. Now it was while it was a republic
that Rome “devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped
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