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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
moving, and engaging actively in the parts
assigned them. The view which to us seems
most consistent is that the book contained a
record of events which were to transpire; and
when the seals were broken, and the record
was brought to light, the scenes were
presented before John, not by the reading of
the description, but by a representation of
what was described in the book being made to
pass before his mind in living characters, in
the place where the reality was to transpire;
namely, on the earth.
The first symbol, a white horse, and the rider
who bears a bow, and to whom a crown is
given, and who goes forth conquering and to
conquer, is a fit emblem of the triumphs of the
gospel in the first century of this dispensation.
The whiteness of the horse denotes the purity
