Page 4 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
was opened? or was it a pictorial illustration

of the events which the book contained, and

which was presented before him as the seals

were broken? or was it a scenic

representation which passed before him, the

different actors coming forth and performing

their parts? Barnes decides in favor of calling

them pictorial illustrations; for he thinks a

merely written description would not answer

to the language of the apostle setting forth

what he saw, and a mere scenic

representation could have no connection with

the opening of the seals. But to the view held

by Dr. Barnes there are two serious

objections: (1) The book was said to contain

only writing within, not pictorial illustrations;

and (2) John saw the characters which made

up the various scenes, not fixed and

motionless upon canvas, but living and