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    The Triple Crown

    “And another shall rise after them, and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.” Verses 24, 25.ChSa 168.1

    There is one ruling power in Europe which wears three crowns in one-a triple crown. No traveler who has ever visited Rome will need to be told who that is. Every statue of a pope in that city (and there are many) wears such a crown. How plainly this ruler has distinguished himself as the power which plucked up three kingdoms! Just before AD. 538, the kingdoms of the Heruli, Vandals, and Ostrogoths, through the influence of the Catholics, were uprooted, and in that year Justinian, emperor of Eastern Rome, ruling in Constantinople, proclaimed the pope head over all the churches.ChSa 168.2

    From this point the papacy rapidly increased in power and arrogance, till the mightiest kings of Europe trembled before this political and religious ruler. His power was unique. Nothing in history resembles it. Never ruling a large territory as his peculiar kingdom, he still possessed an authority over the heart; and consciences of men which no mortal ever exercised before. He had “eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things,” and a look “more stout than his fellows.” Here is strikingly portrayed that far-seeing sagacity and discernment, and ability to grasp the motives of men, which has held so many millions in thralldom never before equaled. The language also indicates those arrogant pretensions and blasphemous claims never surpassed by any other kind of ruler. His look so stout was indeed clearly presented by a power of endurance through many centuries, which has never been equaled by any other.ChSa 169.1

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