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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
admonitions and exhortations were suitable

for them.’ Vitringa has given a summary of the

arguments which may be alleged in favor of

this interpretation. Some of them are

ingenious, but they are not now considered

sufficient to support such a theory. Gill is one

of the principal of the English commentators

who adopt this view, that ‘they are prophetical

of the churches of Christ in the several periods

of time until he appears again.’”

It appears from the authors above cited, that

what has led commentators of more modern

times to discard the view of the prophetical

nature of the messages to the seven churches,

is the comparatively recent and unscriptural

doctrine of the temporal millennium. The last

state of the church, as described in chapter

3:15-17, was deemed to be incompatible with