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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
only in an aspect indicating judicial severity,
but also in one which conveys a promise full of
consolation. The blessed abode from which
man is expelled, is neither annihilated nor
even abandoned to desolation and ruin, but
withdrawn from the earth and from man, and
consigned to the care of the most perfect
creatures of God, in order that it may be
ultimately restored to man when he is
redeemed. Revelation 22:2. The garden, as it
existed before God ‘planted,’ or adorned it,
came under the curse, like the remainder of
the earth, but the celestial and paradisaical
addition was exempted, and entrusted to the
cherubim. The true paradise is now translated
to the invisible world. At least a symbolical
copy of it, established in the holy of holies in
the tabernacle, was granted to the people of
Israel after the pattern which Moses saw in
