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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
the punishment of his crimes, is evident
from Rom. 2:6-10. Paul, here speaking of the
future “judgment of God,” says: —
“Who will render to every man according to
his deeds: to them who by patient continuance
in well-doing seek for glory and honor and
immortality [he will render], eternal life; but
unto them that are contentious, and do not
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness [he
will render], indignation and wrath,
tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of
man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also
of the Gentile.”
The Book of Life. — Why, it may be asked, is
the book of life brought forth on this occasion,
when all who have part in the second
resurrection, beyond which this scene is
located, are already forejudged to the second
