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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
his petition should be granted. He refers to

the fact of their deliverance from Egypt, and

the great renown that had accrued to the

Lord’s name for all his wonderful works

manifested among them. All this would be lost,

should he now abandon them to perish. Moses

used the same argument in pleading for Israel.

Numbers 14. Not that God is moved with

motives of ambition and vainglory; but when

his people are jealous for the honor of his

name, when they evince their love for him by

pleading with him to work, not for their own

personal benefit, but for his own glory, that his

name may not be reproached and blasphemed

among the heathen, this is acceptable with

him. Daniel then intercedes for the city of

Jerusalem, called by God’s name, and his holy

mountain, for which he has had such love, and

beseeches him, for his mercies’ sake, to let his