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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
men so eagerly strive, and so often barter

away present happiness and future endless

life, is “coin not current in heaven.” A certain

writer has forcibly remarked, “There is many

a rich poor man, and many a poor rich man.”

Say They Are Jews, and Are Not. — That the

term Jew is not here used in a literal sense, is

very evident. It denotes some character which

was approved by the gospel standard. Paul’s

language will make this point plain. He says

(Romans 2:28, 29): “For he is not a Jew which

is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision

which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew

[in the true Christian sense] which is one

inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart,

in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise

is not of men, but of God.” Again he says

(chapter 9:6, 7): “For they are not all Israel