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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
And what still further disproves the claim

here set up in behalf of the first day, is the fact

that neither the Father nor the Son has ever

claimed the first day as his own in any higher

sense than he has each or any of the other

laboring days. Neither of them has ever placed

any blessing upon it, or attached any sanctity

to it. If it was to be called the Lord’s day from

the fact of Christ’s resurrection upon it,

Inspiration would doubtless have somewhere

so informed us. But there are other events

equally essential to the plan of salvation, as,

for instance, the crucifixion and the ascension;

and in the absence of all instruction upon the

point, why not call the day upon which either

of these occurred, the Lord’s day, as well as the

day upon which he rose from the dead?