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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 11 – The Two Witnesses
suffer the murdered witnesses to be buried,

or put out of sight among themselves, though

they lay dead three days and a half, that is,

three years and a half, in France. No; this very

attempt on the part of France served to arouse

Christians everywhere to put forth new

exertions in behalf of the Bible, as we shall

presently see.

VERSE 10. And they that dwell upon the earth

shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and

shall send gifts one to another; because these

two prophets tormented them that dwelt on

the earth.

This denotes the joy those felt who hated the

Bible, or were tormented by it. Great was the

joy of infidels everywhere for awhile. But the

“triumphing of the wicked is short;” so was it

in France, for their war on the Bible and