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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
On such passages as this, the reader is

misled by the popular definition of the word

soul. From that definition, he is led to suppose

that this text speaks of an immaterial,

invisible, immortal essence in man, which

soars into its coveted freedom on the death of

its hindrance and clog, the mortal body. No

instance of the occurrence of the word in the

original Hebrew or Greek will sustain such a

definition. It oftenest means life, and is not

unfrequently rendered person. It applies to

the dead as well as to the living, as may be seen

by reference to Genesis 2:7, where the word

living need not have been expressed were life

an inseparable attribute of the soul; and to

Numbers 19:13, where the Hebrew

Concordance reads, “dead soul.” Moreover,

these souls pray that their blood may be

avenged, — an article which the immaterial