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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 4 – A New Vision: The Heavenly Sanctuary
Similar imagery is used in the first chapter

of Ezekiel. The qualities which would seem to

be signified by the emblems are strength,

perseverance, reason, and swiftness, —

strength of affection, perseverance in carrying

out the requirements of duty, reason in

comprehending the divine will, and swiftness

in obeying. These living beings are even more

intimately connected with the throne than are

the four and twenty elders, being represented

as in the midst of it, and round about it. Like

the elders, these, in their song to the Lamb,

ascribe to him praise for having redeemed

them from the earth. They therefore belong to

the same company, and represent a part of the

great multitude, who, as already described

(see remarks on verse 4), have been led up on

high from the captivity of death. Concerning