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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
classes. 1. One class hold that the expression

“the Lord’s day” covers the whole gospel

dispensation, and does not mean any

particular twenty-four-hour day. 2. Another

class hold that the Lord’s day is the day of

Judgment, the future “day of the Lord,” so

often brought to view in the Scriptures. 3. The

third view, and the one perhaps the most

prevalent, is that the expression refers to the

first day of the week. 4. Still another class hold

that it means the seventh day, the Sabbath of

the Lord.

1.To the first of these positions it is sufficient

to reply that the book of Revelation is dated by

the writer, John, in the Isle of Patmos, and

upon the Lord’s day. The writer, the place

where it was written, and the day upon which

it was dated, have each a real existence, and