TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Alonzo Trévier TI - The great empires of prophecy, from Babylon to the fall of Rome PY - 1898/// CY - Battle Creek, Mich. PB - Review and Herald KW - History, Ancient KW - Prophecies N1 - White copy from the personal library of Ellen G. White; Includes bibliographical references; LIST OF MAPS 1 .......................................... CHAPTER I. THE EMPIRE OF BABYLON NEBUCHADNEZZAR 1 ....... Predominance of Babylon -- God's Purpose with Israel -- Religious Imposture Exposed -- There is a God That Revealeth Secrets -- The Siege of Tyre -- Egypt Given to Nebuchadnezzar -- Nebuchadnezzar's Great Golden Image -- The Supremacy of Conscience -- The Most High Ruleth -- The City of Babylon -- A Great Builder CHAPTER II. EMPIRE OF BABYLON -- FROM EVIL-MERODACH TO BELSHAZZAR 25 ............................................... The Reign of Nabonadius -- Belshazzar's Household. The World's Great Kingdoms -- The Three Great World Kingdoms -- The Coming of Medo-Persia CHAPTER III. THE EMPIRE OF MEDIA AND PERSIA -- THE FALL OF BABYLON 36 ............................................... The Doom of Babylon -- Cyrus Drains the Gyndes -- Cyrus Drains the Euphrates -- Belshazzar's Feast -- The City Taken -- Cyrus's Inscription -- Babylon Is Fallen, Is Fallen CHAPTER IV. EMPIRE OF MEDIA AND PERSIA - DARIUS THE MEDE AND CYRUS 50 ........................................... Daniel's Business Faithfulness -- The Rights of Conscience -- Cyrus Acknowledges God -- Opposition of the Samaritans -- Death of Cyrus CHAPTER V. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- CAMBYSES AND "SMERDIS." 61 ............................................... Death of Cambyses -- Death of "Smerdis." CHAPTER VI. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA - DARIUS 67 ...... Darius Supports the Jews -- The Provinces and Revolts -- A Lover of Truth-Telling CHAPTER VII. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- DARIUS. IN SCYTHIA AND AT MARATHON 74 .................................. In Scythia -- The Burning of Sardis -- Destruction of the Fleet -- Second Expedition Against Greece -- Marathon -- The Persians Return to Asia -- Death of Darius CHAPTER VIII. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- XERXES. THE ARMY OF INVASION 88 ......................................... Xerxes Starts to Greece -- The Great Bridge of Boats -- Xerxes Rides Forth -- The Nations Arrayed -- Xerxes Reviews His Army CHAPTER IX. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- XERXES. THERMOPYLAE 101 ............................................. At Thermopylae -- The Greeks Betrayed -- Thermopylae Is Taken CHAPTER X. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- XERXES. SALAMIS 109 ................................................. Athens Taken and Burnt -- Defence of the Isthmus -- The Greeks Make Ready -- The Greeks Victorious -- Xerxes Flees CHAPTER XI. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- XERXES. PLATAEA 121 ................................................. The Battle of Plataea -- The Greeks Victorious CHAPTER XII. EMPIRE OF PERSIA AND MEDIA -- ARTAXERXES TO DARIUS CODOMANUS 127 ..................................... Jerusalem Rebuilt -- Apostasy in Jerusalem -- The Samaritans -- The Battle of Cunaxa -- The Anabasis -- The Last Native King of Egypt CHAPTER XIII. EMPIRE OF GRECIA -- REIGN OF PHILIP 141 ... Demosthenes Against Philip -- The Sacred War -- Philip the Head of Greece -- Philip Generalissimo CHAPTER XIV. EMPIRE OF GRECIA -- ALEXANDER. IN EUROPE 151 Demonstrates His Capabilities -- Alexander Generalissimo -- Alexander's Matchless Celerity -- Final Departure from Greece CHAPTER XV. EMPIRE OF GRECIA -- ALEXANDER. GRANICUS, ISSUS, AND ARBELA 160 ....................................... Battle of the Granicus -- Takes All Asia Minor -- Darius's Army -- Battle of Issus -- Alexander Takes Tyre -- Alexander's Vision -- Holiday and Triumph in Egypt -- The Battle of Arbela CHAPTER XVI. EMPIRE OF GRECIA -- ALEXANDER. FROM BABYLON TO BABYLON AGAIN 177 ................................ Alexander's Court and Carousals -- Grand Entry into Babylon -- Alexander's Wide Dominion -- Alexander's Swiftness of Conquest -- A Man of Providence CHAPTER XVII. EMPIRE OF GRECIA -- ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS. THE EMPIRE DIVIDED 188 .......................... The Governors and Generals -- Plot and Counterplot -- "King" Aridaeus Is Murdered -- Seleucus Obtains Babylon -- The Siege of Rhodes -- Four Kingdoms Did Stand Up CHAPTER XVIII. EMPIRE OF GRECIA -- ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS. THE KING OF THE NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH 200 Lysimachus Takes Macedonia -- The Two Divisions -- The Kingdom of Pergamus -- "The King's Daughter of the South" -- Berenice's Hair -- The Battle of Gaza -- Ptolemy and the Jews -- The Romans Appear CHAPTER XIX. ROME -- THE REPUBLIC 217 ................... Pyrrhus in Italy -- Philip and Hannibal -- Embassies to Rome -- Roman Freedom to the Greeks -- Profitable to the Romans -- Antiochus and the Romans -- War with Antiochus Magnus -- The Day of Magnesia -- Heliodorus and the Temple of God -- Death of Hannibal -- Antiochus Epiphanes in Egypt -- Rome Saves Egypt -- Empire of Grecia Perishes -- Rome's Profound Policy -- The World's Tribunal -- Rome Fulfils the Prophecy CHAPTER XX. ROME -- THE FAILURE OF THE REPUBLIC 250 ..... Rome's Plunder and Luxury -- Territory and Government -- Money the One Thought -- The Rich Richer, the Poor Poorer -- Distribution of the Land -- Public Granaries Established -- War with Mithradates -- Sulla's "Reforms" -- Rise of Pompey and Caesar -- Mithradates on the Romans -- Pompey Subdues Judea -- Antipater the Idumaean -- Rullus and Cicero CHAPTER XXI. ROME -- THE FIRST TRIUMVIRATE 276 .......... Pompey and the Senate -- Caesar and the Senate -- Caesar's Land Laws -- Reform by Law -- The Senate Wins Pompey -- Legal Government Ended -- Pompey and the Nobles -- Antipater and Herod -- The Senate Flatters Caesar -- The Senate Murders Caesar CHAPTER XXII. ROME -- THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE 296 ........ Rise of Octavius -- Plot, Counterplot, and War -- The Triumvirate Formed -- The Triumvirs' Proscription -- "The Saviors of their Country" -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Herod Made King CHAPTER XXIII. ROME -- THE EMPIRE 311 ................... Rome Ruled the World -- The Only World Power -- The World's Homage to Rome -- "The Iron Monarchy." CHAPTER XXIV. ROME -- THE MONARCHY 320 .................. The World-Prison -- Augusts and His Family -- Everything "High Treason" -- A Furious and Crushing Despotism -- Caligula's Popularity -- Caligula's Prodigality -- Caligula's Deadly Cruelty -- Claudius's Popularity -- Messalina and Agrippina -- Roman Society -- Ultimate Paganism CHAPTER XXV. ROME -- AGAINST CHRISTIANITY 343 ........... Antagonistic Principles -- The Roman Idea of Ethics -- Vox Populi, Vox Dei -- God and Caesar -- Christians and the State -- Pliny and the Christians -- Roman Religious Life -- The Roman Laws -- Sources of Persecution -- The Priests and Artisans -- The Governors and Emperors -- The Governmental System at Fault -- Ground of Governmental Persecution -- Christianity Victorious -- The "Ten Persecutions." CHAPTER XXVI. ROME -- THE GREAT APOSTASY 374 ............ That Man of Sin -- Men Speaking Perverse Things -- The Mysteries -- Worshiping Toward the East -- Ambition of the Bishop of Rome -- The New Platonists -- School of Clement and Origen -- The Two Pagan Streams -- Political Designs -- The New Paganism -- The Two Streams Unite; a New Religion CHAPTER XXVII. ROME -- EXALTATION OF THE BISHOPRIC 396 .. One Is Master, Even Christ -- Lover of Pre-eminence Begins -- The Church of Rome Claims Supremacy -- The Bishop the Infallible Judge -- An Episcopal Punic War -- Paul of Samosata CHAPTER XXVIII. ROME -- THE RISE OF CONSTANTINE 409 ..... The Persecution by Diocletian -- Condition of the Church -- The Persecution Stopped -- The City of Rome Offended -- Six Emperors at Once -- Battle of the Milvian Bridge -- Victory of Christian Principles CHAPTER XXIX. ROME -- THE RELIGION OF CONSTANTINE 424 ... Constantine a Sun-Worshiper -- The Labarum -- Dies Solis and the Haruspices. Murder of Crispus and Fausta -- The "True Cross" and Constantine -- Is This Paganism or Christianity? -- A Murder Even in Death CHAPTER XXX. ROME -- CONSTANTINE AND THE BISHOPS 439 .... Constantine a New Moses -- The New "Israel Delivered" -- Constantine's Tabernacle -- Bishops at the Imperial Banquet -- Constantine Sent to Heaven -- The Mystery of Iniquity CHAPTER XXXI. ROME -- THE UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE 453 . Restoration of the Church Property -- Which Was the Catholic Church -- The Donatist Controversy -- The Council at Arles -- The State a Religious Partizan -- Liberty to the Donatists -- Clergy Exempt from Public Offices -- The Church of the Masses -- The Church a Mass of Hypocrites CHAPTER XXXII. ROME -- THE ORIGINAL SUNDAY LEGISLATION 472 True and False Theocracies -- The New, and False, Theocracy -- Constantine's Famous Sunday Law -- The New Kingdom of God -- The Sunday Law only Religious -- By Authority of Pontifex Maximus -- Sunday in the Council of Nice -- Sunday Work Made Sacrilege -- The Church Obtains the Monopoly -- Origin of the Inquisition CHAPTER XXXIII. ROME -- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH 493 ................................................... The Trinitarian Controversy -- homoousion or Homoiousion? -- The Secret of the Controversy -- Constantine's Design -- The Council of Nice -- Grand Entry of the Emperor -- The Parties in the Council -- The Making of the Creed -- The Dissenters Banished -- The True Estimate of the Council CHAPTER XXXIV. ROME -- ARIANISM BECOMES ORTHODOX 515 .... Athanasius Banished, Arius Returned -- Athanasius Returned and Again Banished -- Installation of Bishop Macedonius -- Council of Sardica -- Councils of Arles and Milan -- Arianism Now Orthodox -- Hosius Forced to Become Arian -- Athanasius Again Removed -- Liberius Becomes Arian -- Double Council, Rimini and Seleucia -- The World Finds Itself Arian -- Arianism Is "Catholic." CHAPTER XXXV. ROME -- THE CATHOLIC FAITH RE-ESTABLISHED 540 The Emperor Julian -- Valens, Gratian, and Theodosius -- The Order of the Hierarchy -- Gregory Bishop of Constantinople -- Basil Applies to Rome -- The Council of Constantinople -- The Council of Aquileia -- "Inquisitor of the Faith" -- The Empire "Converted." CHAPTER XXXVI. ROME -- CHURCH USURPS THE CIVIL AUTHORITY 558 ............................................... Aspirations of the Bishop of Rome -- The Clergy Made Civil Judges -- The Bible Made the Code -- The Bishopric a Political Office -- The Worst Characters Become Bishops -- The Episcopal Dictatorship -- Civil Government Vanishes CHAPTER XXXVII. ROME -- THE RUIN OF THE EMPIRE 572 ...... Grandeur of the Bishop of Rome -- Pride of Bishops and Clergy -- Vices of Clergy and People -- Abominations of Sun-Worship Continued -- Heathen Practises in the Church -- Monkish "Virtue" Prevalent -- Sheer Unmingled Naturalism -- Destruction and Devastation -- Worse than Barbarian and Heathen CHAPTER XXXVIII. ROME DIVIDED 591 ....................... The Place of the Ten Divisions -- The Ancient Germans -- German Respect for Woman CHAPTER XXXIX. ROME DIVIDED -- THE ALEMANNI AND THE FRANKS 599 .................................................. The Alemanni Take Vindelicia -- Alemanni and Franks Enter Gaul -- From the Rhine to the Seine -- The Franks and the Alemanni of To-day CHAPTER XL. ROME DIVIDED -- THE SUEVI, THE VANDALS, AND THE BURGUNDIANS 608 ......................................... Radagaisus Invades Italy -- Final Settlement of the Burgundians -- Final Settlement of the Suevi -- The Vandals Enter Africa -- The Roman Armies Defeated -- Carthage Captured CHAPTER XLI. ROME DIVIDED -- THE VISIGOTHS 621 .......... Entrance of the Goths into History -- The Visigoths Taken Over the Danube -- Under Alaric They Ravage Greece -- Alaric Master-General of Illyricum -- Honorius Prepares the Way -- Siege of Rome -- Rome's Ransom -- The Sack of Rome -- The Visigoths Leave Italy -- In Gaul and Spain -- In Spain Their Final Settlement CHAPTER XLII. ROME DIVIDED -- THE ANGLES AND SAXONS 644 . The Original Englishmen -- Angles on the Sea -- Beginning of English History -- Britain Becomes England CHAPTER XLIII. ROME DIVIDED -- THE OSTROGOTHS ENTER THE WESTERN EMPIRE 652 .......................................... Why Attila Invaded Gaul -- The Battle of Chalons -- Battle of the Netad -- Theodoric the Ostrogoth -- The Ostrogothic Dominion CHAPTER XLIV. ROME DIVIDED -- THE LOMBARDS 662 .......... Their Native Region -- After the Battle of Netad CHAPTER XLV. ROME DIVIDED -- THE HERULIAN KINGDOM 667 ... The Heruli in Italy -- Odoacer Made King -- The Western Empire Extinguished -- The Empire of Rome Is Perished CHAPTER XLVI. THE TEN KINGDOMS 677 ...................... The Ten Stand at One Time -- Mede's List of the Kingdoms -- Sir Isaac Newton's List -- Lists of Bishops Newton and Chandler -- Hunnish Empire Extinguished -- The Gepidae and the Avars -- What Machiavelli Himself Says -- Bishop Lloyd's Dates -- The Conclusion ER -