Page 21 - 01 The Opening Vision

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
Holy Spirit, denominated ‘the seven spirits,’

because seven is a sacred and perfect number;

not thus named as denoting interior plurality,

but the fulness and perfection of his gifts and

operations.” Barnes says, “The number seven,

therefore, may have been given by the Holy

Spirit with reference to the diversity or the

fulness of his operations on the souls of men,

and to his manifold agency in the affairs of the

world, as further developed in this book.”

Bloomfield gives this as the general

interpretation.

His Throne. — The throne of God the Father;

for Christ has not yet taken his own throne.

The seven spirits being before the throne

“may be intended to designate the fact that the

Divine Spirit is ever ready to be sent forth, in

accordance with a common representation in