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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 10 – The Proclamation of the Advent
Lord of the prophecy would cause to be put
on record, but which could not well be
presented under the symbol of an angel. When
only a straightforward proclamation is
brought to view, without including the
peculiar experience which the church is to
pass through in connection therewith, angels
may be used as symbols to represent the
religious teachers who proclaim that message,
as in Revelation 14; but when some particular
experience of the church is to be presented,
the case is manifestly different. This could
most appropriately be set forth in the person
of some member of the human family; hence
John is himself called upon to act a part in this
symbolic representation. And this being the
case, the angel who here appeared to John
may represent that divine messenger, who, in
the order which is observed in all the work of
