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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
every creature,” and “the first-born from the

dead.” But these expressions do not

necessarily denote that he was the first in

point of time to be raised from the dead; for

others were raised before him. That would be

a very unimportant point; but he was the chief

and central figure of all who have come up

from the grave; for it was by virtue of Christ’s

coming, work, and resurrection, that any were

raised before his time. In the purpose of God,

he was the first in point of time as well as in

importance; for it was not till after the

purpose of Christ’s triumph over the grave

was formed in the mind of God, who calleth

those things that be not as though they were

(Romans 4:17), that any were released from

the power of death, by virtue of that great fact

which was in due time to be accomplished.

Christ is therefore called the “first-begotten of