Page 10 - 01 The Opening Vision

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
blessing pronounced upon the reading and

observance of any other portion of the word of

God? What encouragement, then, have we for

its study! And shall we say that it cannot be

understood? Is a blessing offered for the study

of a book which it can do us no good to study?

Men may assert, with more pertness than

piety, that “every age of declension is marked

by an increase of commentaries on the

Apocalypse,” or that “the study of the

Revelation either finds or leaves a man mad;”

but God has pronounced his blessing upon it,

he has set the seal of his approbation to an

earnest study of its marvelous pages; and with

such encouragement from such a source, the

child of God will be unmoved by a thousand

feeble counterblasts from men.