"He Who Does Not Remember History Is
Condemned To Repeat It" - Georges
Santayana
"Power tends to Corrupt, and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" - Lord
Acton
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Give It To Others" - William
Allen White
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First Trumpet
Revelation 8:7
Rev. 8:7 The first angel sounded, (Judgments) and
there followed hail (Alaric came from
the icy north 395 AD.) and fire mingled with blood,
and they were cast upon the earth: and the third (The
three divisions of Roman Empire: 1. Constantinople 2.
Britain, Gaul, and Spain. 3. Africa and Italy.) part
of trees (The Goths burned trees all
over the countryside.) was burnt up, and all green
grass was burnt up. (The Bible represents
the terrible effects of the Gothic invasion as "hail," from
the northern origin of the invaders; and the "blood," from
the terrible slaughter of the citizens of the empire by the
bold and intrepid warriors. The blast of the first trumpet
has its location about the close of the fourth century, and
onward, and refers to these desolating invasions of the Roman
Empire under the Goths.)
The first invasion under Alaric ravaged the Eastern
Empire. Alaric captured the famous cities
and enslaved many of the inhabitants of Thrace, Macedonia,
Attica, and Peloponnesus, but he did not reach the city
of Rome. Later, the Gothic chieftain crossed the
Alps and the Apennines and appeared before the walls of
the Eternal City, which fell to the fury of the barbarians
in 410 A.D.
Alaric again stretched his ravages over Italy. For
four years, the Goths ravaged and reigned over Italy without
control. In addition, in the pillaging and fire of
Rome, the streets of the city filled with dead bodies; the
flames consumed many public and private buildings; and the
ruins of a palace remained, after a century and a half, a
stately monument of the Gothic conflagration.
The public devotion of the age was impatient
to exalt the saints and martyrs of the Catholic Church on
the altars of Diana and Hercules. The union of the
Roman Empire dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust;
and the armies of the unknown barbarians, issuing from the
frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious
reign over the farthest of provinces of Europe and Africa.