. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . uch as iron breaketh inpieces and subdueth allihmgs; and as iron thatbreaketh all these, shall itbreak in pieces and bruise. 41 And whereas thou saw-est the feet and toes, part ofpotters clay, and part ofiron, the kingdom shall bedivided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron,j ______ forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with themiry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, andpart of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, andpart
. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . uch as iron breaketh inpieces and subdueth allihmgs; and as iron thatbreaketh all these, shall itbreak in pieces and bruise. 41 And whereas thou saw-est the feet and toes, part ofpotters clay, and part ofiron, the kingdom shall bedivided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron,j ______ forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with themiry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, andpart of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, andpartly broken, 43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miryclay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed ofmen ; but they shall not cleave one to another, even asiron is not mixed with clay. These verses describe the Roman empire,which succeeded the Greek and Macedon-ian, about the time of the Caesars, Julius,and Augustus, perhaps we may reckon about30 years before the christian era. Augus-tus Coesar, was emperor of Rome at the timeof Christs birth, and Tiberias Caesar at thetime of his crucifixion. It was strong like. xebuchadnezzars dream. 47 iron, and break in pieces and subdued allthings. The Romans in the former part oftheir prosperity, were remarkable for valor,hardiness, frugality, and poverty, of whichiron is a proper emblem. The two consulsby which they were long governed, and theeastern and western empires, into which theirdominions were ultimately divided, may bedenoted by the two legs and feet on whichthe image stood; and the ten toes intowhich the feet are divided, represented theten kingdoms into which the whole empirewas afterwards divided. But these thingswill be more fully illustrated in a subsequentpart of the book, where the same empire isrepresented as a beast with seven heads andten horns. 44 And in the days of these kings shall the God ofheaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroy-ed ; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,but it sh
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