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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
the dead” (chapter 1:5), the “first-fruits of

them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:20), the

“first-born among many brethren” (Romans

8:29), and “the first-born from the dead.”

Colossians 1:18. In Acts 26:23 he is spoken of

as “the first that should rise from the dead, and

should show light unto the people,” or the first

who by rising from the dead should show light

unto the people. (See the Greek of this

passage, and Bloomfield’s note thereon; also

Here and Hereafter, chapter 17.)

The Prince of the Kings of the Earth. — Christ

is Prince of earthly kings in a certain sense

now. Paul informs us, in Ephesians 1:20, 21,

that he has been set at the right hand of God in

the heavenly places, “far above all principality,

and power, and might, and dominion, and

every name that is named, not only in this