Page 4 - 02 The Seven Churches

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
messages to them, should be regarded as

prophetic, having their application to seven

distinct periods covering the Christian age,

have been given in the remarks on chapter

1:4. It may here be added that this view is

neither new nor local. Benson quotes Bishop

Newton as saying, “Many contend, and among

them such learned men as More and Vitringa,

that the seven epistles are prophetical of so

many successive periods, or states, of the

church, from the beginning to the conclusion

of all.”

Scott says: “Many expositors have imagined

that these epistles to the seven churches were

mystical prophecies of seven distinct periods,

into which the whole term, from the apostles’

days to the end of the world, would be

divided.”