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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
pieces like a potter’s vessel. Chapter 19:16;

2:27; Psalms 2:8, 9.

Unto Him that Loved Us. — We have thought

that earthly friends loved us, — a father, a

mother, brothers and sisters, or bosom

friends, — but we see that no love is worthy of

the name compared with the love of Christ for

us. And the following sentence adds intensity

of meaning to the previous words: “And

washed us from our sins in his own blood.”

What love is this! “Greater love,” says the

apostle, “hath no man than this, that a man lay

down his life for his friends.” But Christ has

commended his love to us, in that he died for

us “while we were yet sinners.” But more than

this — “Hath made us kings and priests unto

God and his Father.” From being leprous with

sin, we are made clean in his sight; from being