VANDALES, THE HERULIANS AND THE OSTROGOTHERS WERE SUBDUED

THE DUAL PLAN

Having followed the wonderful development of the great people in their

course through the national moulds, and having seen them divided and

sub-divided by kings until ten such kings were seated on the head (the

government) of the people (the body), the prophet noticed a "little

horn" coming up amidst the ten horns. This horn was different from the

rest, in that it had "eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth

speaking great things." What kingly power was it that arose after the

rise of the ten kings or the forming of the ten divisions of the Roman

empire? The empire was divided into ten divisions between the years

356 and 483 A. D., consequently that power arose this side of 483 A.

D. The papal power was then in its embryonic state—continually

de­veloping. When it needed more room for its universal growth, the

opposing powers next to it: viz., the Vandales, the Herulians and the

Ostrogoths, who opposed the union of the state and church, were

subdued.