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wish to identify with the Greek Empire and the Little Horn
with Antiochus. Some of the critics, e.g. Carpenter, consider
the Medo-Persian Power as two separate kingdoms. But
this empire was not more two than the late Austro-Hungarian
Empire was. The explorations carried on by the Scientific
Mission of the French savant, M. Morgan, in Shushan (Susa)
and elsewhere leave no doubt on this point. The fourth
beast can, therefore, be no other than the old Roman world.
To show that the Little Horn is no other than Constan-
tine the Great, the following arguments can safely be
advanced: -
(a) He overcame Maximian and the other two rivals
and assumed the purple, and put an end to the persecution
of Christianity. Gibbon's, The Decline and Fall of the Roman
with Antiochus. Some of the critics, e.g. Carpenter, consider
the Medo-Persian Power as two separate kingdoms. But
this empire was not more two than the late Austro-Hungarian
Empire was. The explorations carried on by the Scientific
Mission of the French savant, M. Morgan, in Shushan (Susa)
and elsewhere leave no doubt on this point. The fourth
beast can, therefore, be no other than the old Roman world.
To show that the Little Horn is no other than Constan-
tine the Great, the following arguments can safely be
advanced: -
(a) He overcame Maximian and the other two rivals
and assumed the purple, and put an end to the persecution
of Christianity. Gibbon's, The Decline and Fall of the Roman