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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
supplication before the Lord my God for the

holy mountain of my God: 21. Yea, whiles I was

speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel,

whom I had seen in the vision at the

beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched

me about the time of the evening oblation.

We here have the result of Daniel’s

supplication. He is suddenly interrupted by a

heavenly messenger. The angel Gabriel,

appearing again as he had before, in the form

of a man, whom Daniel had seen in the vision

at the beginning, touched him. A very

important question is at this point to be

determined. It is to be decided whether the

vision of chapter 8 has ever been explained,

and can ever be understood. The question is,

To what vision does Daniel refer by the

expression, “the vision at the beginning”? It