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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
5. We are aware that any attempt to explain
these books and make an application of their
prophecies, is generally looked upon as a
futile and fanatical task, and is sometimes met
even with open hostility. It is much to be
regretted that any portions of that volume
which all Christians believe to be the book
wherein God has undertaken to reveal his will
to mankind, should come to be regarded in
such a light. But a great fact, to which the
reader’s attention is called in the following
paragraph, is believed to contain for this state
of things both an explanation and an antidote.
6. There are two general systems of
interpretation adopted by different expositors
in their efforts to explain the sacred
Scriptures. The first is the mystical or
spiritualizing system invented by Origen, to
the shame of sound criticism and the curse of
