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us now turn our attention to the sublime prophecies contained in the eleventh chapter of the Prophet Daniel, ushered in as they are by the magnificent and terrible description of the angelic vision seen by this same holy Daniel on the banks of the river Tigris. But before we come to the substance of this remarkable prophecy, let us pause for a moment to observe one or two expressions of the inspired writer, which undoubtedly throw a great light on the controversy which has unhappily lasted so long between Catholics and Protestants.

Now in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first verses of the tenth chapter, we find that the glorious angel, who had appeared to Daniel on the banks of the Tigris, speaks of a conflict he had with the prince of the Persians, and that he also mentions the coming of the prince of the Greeks, after which he adds these remarkable words: "But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of truth: