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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
work, ‘to seal up.’ To talk of its sealing up

itself is as much of an absurdity as to suppose

that Josephus was so much afraid of the

Romans that he refrained from telling the

world that he thought the fourth kingdom of

Daniel was ‘the kingdom of the Greeks.’ It is no

more proper to say that the ninth chapter of

Daniel ‘is complete in itself,’ than it would be

to say that a map which was designed to show

the relation of Massachusetts to the United

States, referred to nothing but Massachusetts.

It is no more complete in itself than a bond

given in security for a note, or some other

document to which it refers, is complete in

itself; and we doubt if there is a schoolboy of

fourteen years in the land, of ordinary

capacity, who would not, on reading the ninth

chapter, with an understanding of the clause

before us, decide that it referred to something