Clovis, France, and Rome (Mosheim; Maclaine, tr., An ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, 6 vols., 1st Amer. ed., 1898, vol. 2)

Text: "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Daniel 7:7,8

Quote:

   The conversion of Clovis is looked upon by the learned as the origin of the titles of Most Christian king, and Eldest son of the church, which have been so long attributed to the kings of France. For if we except this prince, all the kings of those barbarous nations, who seized upon the Roman provinces, were either yet involved in the darkness of paganism, or infected with the Arian heresy.

Mosheim, Johann Lorenz; Maclaine, Archibald, tr., An ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ, to the beginning of the present century; in which the rise, progress, and variations of church power are considered in their connexion with the state of learning and philosophy, and the political history of Europe during that period, 6 vols., 1st Amer. ed., Philadelphia: Printed by Stephen C. Ustick, 1898, vol. 2, p. 8.

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