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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
desolation is but the counterpart, and to

which it succeeds in point of time. The “daily”

desolation was paganism, the “abomination of

desolation” is the papacy. But it may be asked

how this can be the papacy; since Christ spoke

of it in connection with the destruction of

Jerusalem. And the answer is, Christ evidently

referred to the ninth of Daniel, which is a

prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem, and

not to this verse of chapter 11, which does not

refer to that event. Daniel, in the ninth

chapter, speaks of desolations and

abominations, plural. More than one

abomination, therefore, treads down the

church; that is, so far as the church is

concerned, both paganism and the papacy are

abominations. But as distinguished from each

other, the language is restricted, and one is the

“daily” desolation, and the other is pre-