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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
jail. But when man thinks he has buried the

truth in eternal oblivion, the Lord gives it a

resurrection in tenfold glory and power. From

Bunyan’s dark and narrow cell there blazed

forth a spiritual light, which, next to the Bible

itself, has built up the interests of the gospel;

and from the barren Isle of Patmos, where

Domitian thought he had forever extinguished

at least one torch of truth, there arose the

most magnificent revelation of all the sacred

canon, to shed its divine luster over the whole

Christian world till the end of time. And how

many will revere the name of the beloved

disciple, and hang with delight upon his

enrapturing visions of heavenly glory, who

will never learn the name of the monster who

caused his banishment. Verily, those words of

the Scriptures are sometimes applicable, even

to the present life, which declare that “the