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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
the world. And this threatening would be

just as applicable to individuals as to the

church as a body. How many who professed

Christianity during that period thus came

short and were rejected, we know not;

doubtless many. And thus things would go on,

some remaining steadfast, some backsliding

and becoming no longer light-bearers in the

world, new converts meanwhile filling up the

vacancies made by death and apostasy, until

the church reaches a new era in her

experience, marked off as another period in

her history, and covered by another message.

The Nicolaitanes. — How ready is Christ to

commend his people for whatever good

qualities they may possess! If there is anything

of which he approves, he mentions that first.

And in this message to the church of Ephesus,