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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

been too generally overlooked or

misinterpreted.

12. There seems to be no prophecy which a

person can have so little excuse for

misunderstanding as the prophecy of Daniel,

especially as relates to its main features.

Dealing but sparingly in language that is

highly figurative, explaining all the symbols it

introduces, locating its events within the rigid

confines of prophetic periods, it points out the

first advent of the Messiah in so clear and

unmistakable a manner as to call forth the

execration of the Jews upon any attempt to

explain it, and gives so accurately, and so

many ages in advance, the outlines of the great

events of our world’s history, that infidelity

stands confounded and dumb before its

inspired record.