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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Christendom; the second is the system of

literal interpretation, used by such men as

Tyndale, Luther, and all the Reformers, and

furnishing the basis for every advance step

which has thus far been made in the

reformation from error to truth as taught in

the Scriptures. According to the first system,

every declaration is supposed to have a

mystical or hidden sense, which it is the

province of the interpreter to bring forth; by

the second, every declaration is to be taken in

its most obvious and literal sense, except

where the context and the well-known laws of

language show that the terms are figurative,

and not literal; and whatever is figurative

must be explained by other portions of the

Bible which are literal.