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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day,

and hallowed it.” By the prophet Isaiah, about

eight hundred years later, God spoke as

follows: “If thou turn away thy foot from the

Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy

day, ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the

Lord,” etc. We come down to New-Testament

times, and He who is one with the Father

declares expressly, “The Son of man is Lord

also of the Sabbath.” Can any man deny that

that day is the Lord’s day, of which he has

emphatically declared that he is the Lord?

Thus we see that whether it be the Father or

the Son whose title is involved, no other day

can be called the Lord’s day but the Sabbath of

the great Creator.

One more thought, and we leave this point.

There is in this dispensation one day