Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ee by Emperor Phocas(a. d. 606) as a starting point. But Dr. Croly says: The highest authorities among the civihans and annalists of Romespurn the idea that Phocas was the founder of the supremacy of Rome;they ascend to Justinian as the only legitimate source, and rightly datethe title from the memorable year 533.—^The Apocalypse of St. John,pp. 172, 173. The Sword of Empire Cleaves the Way The great authority^ had been recognized. But at thistime heretical Arian powers compassed the papal seat about.The Arian Vandals were persecuting Catholics in Africa,Corsica, and Sardinia, and an Arian Gothic king ruled Italyfrom Ravenna, his capital. The imperial arms, however, 134 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy were at the service of orthodoxy. In 533-534 Justiniansfamous general, Behsarius, uprooted the Vandals. The waifor the faith and the empire was carried into Italy also,against the Arian Goths. In 536 Belisarius, unopposed, en-tered Rome at the invitation of the Pope. But the next year
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THE POPE ENTERING ST. PETERSFROM THE VATICAN The famous statue of St. Petermay be seen on the right. the Goths rallied all their forces to retake the city. It was a crisis in the struggle for Italy. If a single post had given way, says Gibbon, the Romans, and Rome itself, were irrecoverably lost. The Goths withdrew, defeated, in 538; and this defeat, says Hodgkin, dug the grave of the Gothic monarchy in Italy. Though the conflict went on for years before the Goths were rooted up, this defeat of 538 was a crucial hour in their liistory. Finlay says: With the conquest of Rome by Belisarius, the history of the ancientcity may be considered as terminating; and with his defense against The 1260 Years of DanieVs Prophecy 135 Witiges (538) commences the history of the Middle Ages.—^Greeceunder the Romans, p. 295. Roughly speaking, the Middle Ages and the age of papalsupremacy and power were the same. A New Order of Popes Not only was there this telHng stroke by the imperialsword in 538, he

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