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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 10 – Daniel’s Last Vision
divine being, who had been sent to him

because he was greatly beloved, and in answer

to his earnest prayer. Nor ought the people of

God of any age to entertain a servile fear of any

of those agents who are sent forth to minister

to their salvation. There is, however, a

disposition manifested among far too many to

allow their minds to conceive of Jesus and his

angels as only stern ministers of justice,

inflictors of vengeance and retribution, rather

than as beings who are earnestly working for

our salvation on account of the pity and love

with which they regard us. The presence of an

angel, should he appear bodily before them,

would strike them with terror; and the

thought that Christ is soon to appear, and they

are to be taken into his presence, distresses

and alarms them. We recommend to such

more amiable views of the relation which the