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Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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COPYRIGHT BY UNDERV/OOD & UNDERWOOD, N Y. THE VATICAN A birds-eye view from the dome of St. Peters. at this same time the first of a new order of popes was placedupon the papal throne by the imperial arms. Pope Silverius,accused of sympathy with the Goths, was deposed by Belisa-rius in 537. The emperor intervened, and the question ofthe validity of his deposition was held up by the emperoruntil 538. In that year, as Schaff says: Vigilius, a pliant creature of Theodora, ascended the papal chairunder the military protection of Belisarius (538-554).—^^History of theChristian Church, Vol. Ill, p. 327. With him begins a new order. Though personally he washumiliated by the emperors demands, and the Papacy itself 136 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy
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THE FAMOUS SACRED STAIRWAYIN ROME Here Luther, climbing the stairway onhis knees, heard the message, Thejust shall live by faith. was brought into a state of subjection that it had not knowneven under heretical Gothic kings, yet this very arbitraryuse of the papal prerogative by Justinian, strengthened theidea that the Pope of Rome was the supreme authority in The 1260 Years of DanieVs Prophecy 137 religion, to speak for the universal church. In Bemont andMonods textbook on Medieval Europe, page 120, we read: Down to the sixth century all popes are declared saints in themartyrologies. Vigilius (537*-555) is the first of a series of popes who nolonger bear this title, which is henceforth sparingly conferred. From thistime on the popes, more and more involved in worldly events, no longerbelong solely to the church; they are men of the state, and then rulersof the state, A Persecuting Power Following Vigilius came Pelagius I (556-560), who as-cended the throne by the military aid of Nars

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