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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
The Cause of Banishment. — “For the word

of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

This was John’s high crime and misdemeanor.

The tyrant Domitian, who was then invested

with the imperial purple of Rome, more

eminent for his vices than even for his civil

position, quailed before this aged but

dauntless apostle. He dared not permit the

promulgation of his pure gospel within the

bounds of his kingdom. He exiled him to lonely

Patmos, where, if anywhere this side of death,

he might be said to be out of the world. Having

confined him to that barren spot, and to the

cruel labor of the mines, the emperor

doubtless thought that this preacher of

righteousness was finally disposed of, and

that the world would hear no more of him. So,

doubtless, thought the persecutors of John

Bunyan when they had shut him up in Bedford