thrust aside some of the others, and usurp their places. Three kingdoms were thus plucked up. A Little Horn Among the Ten.—This little horn, as we shall have occasion to notice more fully hereafter, was the papacy. The three horns plucked up by the roots represented the Heruli, the Ostrogoths, and the Vandals. The reason for their removal was their opposition to the teachings and claims of the papal hierarchy. “In this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things”—fit emblems
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