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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
chapters 18, 19, and 21.) It is very evident

from history, as well as from this verse, that

the church of Christ did suffer some of the

papal monks to preach and teach among them.

(See the ‘History of the Waldenses.’)”

The Comprehensive Commentary has the

following remark upon verse 23: “Children are

spoken of, which confirms the idea that a sect

and its proselytes are meant.” The judgments

here threatened against this woman are in

harmony with the threatenings in other parts

of this book against the Romish Church under

the symbol of a corrupt woman, the mother of

harlots and abominations of the earth. (See

chapters 17-19.) The death which is

threatened is doubtless the second death, at

the end of the one thousand years of

Revelation 20, when the righteous retribution