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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
Trophimus, his disciple, sick. 2 Timothy

4:20. And Troas, where Paul spent a season

with the disciples, and whence, having waited

till the Sabbath was past, he started off upon

his journey, was not far removed from

Pergamos, named among the seven. It

becomes, therefore, an interesting question to

determine why seven of the churches of Asia

Minor were selected as the ones to which the

Revelation should be dedicated. Does what is

said of the seven churches in chapter 1, and to

them in chapters 2 and 3, have reference

solely to the seven literal churches named,

describing things only as they then and there

existed, and portraying what was before them

alone? We cannot so conclude, for the

following reasons: —