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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
main proposition that the righteous dead

are raised by themselves, in a “first

resurrection,” and that there is a second

resurrection a thousand years later, in which

all the wicked are brought from their graves.

But the criticism is not true. All scholarship is

against it. The Revised Version retains the

passage.

Two Resurrections. — “The rest of the dead

lived not again till the thousand years were

finished.” Whatever may be said to the

contrary, no language could more plainly

prove two resurrections; the first, a

resurrection of the righteous at the

commencement of the thousand years; and

the second, that of the wicked at the end of

that period. On such as have part in the first

resurrection, the second death will have no