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Truth was flung to the ground" by the little horn as it tramples the land: this is probably a reference to the Torah, the Law of Moses. [26] Daniel 8:13's "holy ones" most likely means angels, rather than saints, as in the King James Version. [27] Sometimes in the Hebrew Bible it seems to refer to the Israelites. [28]
Introduction (verses 1–2a) Vision report: vision of the four beasts; vision of the "little horn"; throne vision; vision of judgement; vision of a figure on the clouds (2b–14) Interpretation (15–18) Additional clarification of the vision (19–27) Conclusion (28)
[53] He held that the papacy was the "little horn" of Daniel 7:8: [54] A little horn has grown up with eyes and mouth speaking great things, which is reducing three of these kingdoms--i.e. Sicily, Italy, and Germany--to subserviency, is persecuting the people of Christ and the saints of God with intolerable opposition, is confounding things ...
[56] He held that the papacy was the "little horn" of Daniel 7:8: [57] "A little horn has grown up" with "eyes and mouth speaking great things", which is reducing three of these kingdoms (i.e. Sicily, Italy, and Germany) to subserviency, is persecuting the people of Christ and the saints of God with intolerable opposition, is confounding things ...
This is explained as a fourth kingdom, different from all the other kingdoms; it "will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it" (v. 23). The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom (v. 24). A further horn (the "little horn") then appears and uproots three of the previous horns: this is explained as a future king.
Daniel 8:3-10 (Authorized Version 1611) Historicist and other scholars applied Daniel's little horn as symbolizing the Papacy. This was also the leading view of the Reformers, that the Roman Catholic Church the “Empire of the Youngest Horn" [45] of Daniel 8.
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The classical historicist view of the vision of the angel with the little book, in Revelation 10, represents the Protestant Reformation and the printing of Bibles in the common languages. The Adventists take a unique view applying it to the Millerite movement; the "bitterness" of the book (Rev 10:10) represents the Great Disappointment .
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