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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
understand, when persons use such
expressions, that some insurmountable
obstacle was literally thrown across the path
they were traveling, or that their hands were
literally confined with ropes or cords? — No;
but simply that a combination of
circumstances rendered it impossible for
them to act. Just so here; and why will not
people grant to the Bible the same liberty of
speech that they give, without question and
without ridicule, to their fellow men in the
common intercourse of life? But more than
this, there is here a great limitation of Satan’s
power, which may well be called a “binding.”
He no longer has the power of traversing
space, and visiting other worlds; but like man
he is confined to this earth, which he
nevermore leaves. The place of the ruin he has
wrought now becomes his gloomy prison-
