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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 9 – The Seven Trumpets (continued)
utterly destroy. The marvel was that they

did not.” (In reference to the five months, see

on verse 10.)

VERSE 6. And in those days shall men seek

death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to

die, and death shall flee from them.

“Men were weary of life, when life was spared

only for a renewal of woe, and when all that

they accounted sacred was violated, and all

that they held dear constantly endangered,

and the savage Saracens domineered over

them, or left them only to a momentary

repose, ever liable to be suddenly or violently

interrupted, as if by the sting of a scorpion.”

VERSE 7. And the shapes of the locusts were

like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on

their heads were as it were crowns like gold,

and their faces were as the faces of men.