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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
which anything takes place.” It never means

about or concerning. Hence they who refer it

to the Judgment day either contradict the

language used, making it mean concerning

instead of on, or they make John state a

strange falsehood, by saying that he had a

vision upon the Isle of Patmos, nearly eighteen

hundred years ago, on the day of Judgment

which is yet future!

3. The third view is that by “Lord’s day” is

meant the first day of the week, a view by far

the most generally entertained. On this we

inquire for the proof. What evidence have we

for this assertion? The text itself does not

define the term Lord’s day; hence if it means

the first day of the week we must look

elsewhere in the Bible for the proof that that

day of the week is ever so designated. The only