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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
Here another speaker is introduced.

Previous to this, John has been the speaker.

But this verse has no connection with what

precedes nor with what follows. Who it is who

here speaks must be determined, therefore,

by the terms used. Here we again have the

expression, “Which is, and which was, and

which is to come,” which has already been

noticed as referring exclusively to God. But it

may be asked, Does not the word Lord denote

that it was Christ? On this point Barnes has the

following note: “Many MSS. instead of ‘Lord,’

κύριος, read ‘God,’ θεός, and this reading is

adopted by Griesbach, Tittman, and Hahn, and

is now regarded as the correct reading.”

Bloomfield supplies the word God, and marks

the words “the beginning and the ending” as

an interpolation. Thus appropriately closes

the first principal division of this chapter, with