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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
not merely a symbolical or mystical one. But

if we say that the day means the gospel

dispensation, we give it a symbolical or

mystical meaning, which is not admissible.

Besides, this position involves the absurdity of

making John say, sixty-five years after the

death of Christ, that the vision which he

records was seen by him in the gospel

dispensation, as though any Christian could

possibly be ignorant of that fact!

2. The second position, that it is the day of

Judgment, cannot be correct; for while John

might have had a vision concerning the day of

Judgment, he could not have had one on that

day when it is yet future. The word translated

on is ἐν (en), and is defined by Robinson when

relating to time, as follows: “Time when; a

definite point or period, in, during, on, at,