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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
of hopeless inactivity. This, to a mind that

has been so busy as his has been for the past

six thousand years in deceiving the world,

must be a punishment of the most intense

severity.

According to this exposition, the “binding” of

Satan means simply the placing beyond his

reach of the subjects upon whom he works,

and his being “loosed” means their being

brought again, by a resurrection, to a position

where he can again exercise his power upon

them. Over this exposition some assume to

grow merry, telling us that we have mistaken

the parties, and have the wicked bound, not

the Devil. Yet how often do we hear, in the

daily transactions of life, such expressions as

these: My way was completely hedged up; my

hands were completely tied, etc. But do we