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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

10. An increase of knowledge respecting the

prophetic portions of the word of God was to

be one of the characteristics of the last days.

Said the angel to Daniel, “But thou, O Daniel,

shut up the words, and seal the book, even to

the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,

and knowledge shall be increased;” or, as

Michaelis’s translation reads: “When many

shall give their sedulous attention to the

understanding of these things, and knowledge

shall be increased.” It is our lot to live this side

the time to which the angel told Daniel to thus

shut up the words and seal the book. That

restriction has now expired by limitation. In

the language of the figure, the seal has been

removed, and many are running to and fro,

and knowledge has marvelously increased in

every department of science; yet it is evident

that this prophecy specially contemplates an