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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
manna, white stone, and new name, to

spiritual blessings to be enjoyed in this life;

but, like all the other promises to the

overcomer, this one doubtless refers wholly to

the future, and is to be given when the time

comes that the saints are to be rewarded.

Perhaps the following from the late H. Blunt is

as satisfactory as anything that has ever been

written upon these several particulars: —

“It is generally thought by commentators that

this refers to an ancient judicial custom of

dropping a black stone into an urn when it is

intended to condemn, and a white stone when

the prisoner is to be acquitted; but this is an

act so distinct from that described, ‘I will give

thee a white stone,’ that we are disposed to

agree with those who think it refers rather to

a custom of a very different kind, and not