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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
symbolic language; but it is also claimed that
the Scriptures introduce no figure which they
do not somewhere furnish literal language to
explain. This volume is offered as a consistent
exposition of the books of Daniel and the
Revelation according to the literal system.
8. The study of prophecy should by no means
be neglected; for it is the prophetic portions of
the word of God which especially constitute it
a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. So
both David and Peter unequivocally testify.
Psalms 119:105; 2 Peter 1:19.
9. No sublimer study can occupy the mind
than the study of those books in which He who
sees the end from the beginning, looking
forward through all the ages, gives, through
his inspired prophets, a description of coming
events for the benefit of those whose lot it
would be to meet them.
