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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
4. The three positions already examined

having been disproved, the fourth — that by

Lord’s day is meant the Sabbath of the Lord —

now demands attention. And this of itself is

susceptible of the clearest proof. 1. When God

gave to man in the beginning six days of the

week for labor, he expressly reserved the

seventh day to himself, placed his blessing

upon it, and claimed it as his holy day. 2. Moses

told Israel in the wilderness of Sin on the sixth

day of the week, “To-morrow is the rest of the

holy Sabbath unto the Lord.” We come to Sinai,

where the great Lawgiver proclaimed his

moral precepts in awful grandeur; and in that

supreme code he thus lays claim to his

hallowed day: “The seventh day is the Sabbath

of the Lord thy God: ... for in six days the Lord

made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in

them is, and rested the seventh day: