Then he must promulgate a law which _conflicts_ with the law of God, and demand obedience to his own in preference to God's.

There is no other possible way in which he could place himself in the position assigned in the prophecy.

But this is simply to change the law of God; and if he can cause this change to be adopted by the people in place of the original enactment, then he, the law-changer, is above God, the law-maker.

And this is the very work that Daniel said he should think to do.
Such a work as this, then, the papacy must accomplish according to the prophecy; and the prophecy cannot fail.

And when this is done, what do the people of the world have?
They have two laws demanding from them obedience: one, the law of God as originally enacted by him, an embodiment of his will, and expressing his claims upon his creatures; the other, a revised edition of that law, emanating from the pope of Rome, and expressing his will.