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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
your brother, and partaker with you in the

affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the

Messiah.” Wakefield translates: “I John, your

brother, and sharer with you in enduring the

affliction of the kingdom of Jesus Christ.”

Bloomfield says that by the words tribulation

and patience “are denoted afflictions and

troubles to be endured for the sake, and in the

cause of Christ; and βασιλείᾳ [kingdom]

intimates that he is to be partaker with them

in the kingdom prepared for them.” He says

that “the best comment on this passage is 2

Timothy 2:12,” which reads: “If we suffer, we

shall also reign with him.” From all which we

may safely conclude that though there is a

kingdom of grace in the present state, the

kingdom to which John alluded is the future

kingdom of glory, and the suffering and

patience are preparatory to its enjoyment.