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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
righteous shall be in everlasting

remembrance,” but “the name of the wicked

shall rot.”

VERSE 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day,

and heard behind me a great voice, as of a

trumpet.

In the Spirit. — Exiled though John was from

all of like faith, and almost from the world, he

was not exiled from God, nor from Christ, nor

from the Holy Spirit, nor from angels. He still

had communion with his divine Lord. And the

expression “in the Spirit” seems to denote the

highest state of spiritual elevation into which

a person can be brought by the Spirit of God. It

marked the commencement of his vision.

On the Lord’s Day. — What day is intended by

this designation? On this question four

different positions are taken by different