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Lectures Expository and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Daniel Volume 2; With Copious Notes

Lectures Expository and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Daniel Volume 2; With Copious Notes

Miles, Charles P.

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235843114
ISBN13: 9781235843112
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1841 Excerpt: ... to the French ambassador; and, in his master's name, he presented them before the tomb of St. Peter The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince; the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna. The true character of the party, typified by a horn, was now thoroughly developed; and we may again refer to Mr. Gibbon, as a witness in behalf of the fulfilment of prophecy. His own pen has declared: The Greek emperor abdicated, or forfeited, his right to the exarchate; and the sword of Astolphus was broken by the stronger sword of the Carlovingian.f And what occasioned this revolution, but the ambition, and the craftiness, and the authority of the lordly pontiffs? Sufficient proof has, I think, been afforded, to shew that two of the three horns were subdued by the little horn. We have seen that the kingdom of Lombardy was entirely extirpated, and that the Greeks were excommunicated and greatly depressed. It were superfluous to add any thing more concerning the former of these dominions. But, a further inquiry into the subsequent history of the latter would tend to esta Gibbon, chap. xlix. f Ibid. blish our conviction, that the eastern residue of the Roman empire was one of the powers predestined to be torn up through the intervention of the popes. We must be ignorant, indeed, of the affairs of papal times, were we to imagine that the bishops of Rome ceased to persecute the Greeks after they were expelled from Italy. Leo IX., through the medium of his legates, deposited, on the altar of St. Sophia, an anathema, wherein Cerularius, patriarch of Constantinople, ...

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