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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
“Still another evidence is found in the
Arabic, where Azazel is employed as the name
of the evil spirit. In addition to these, we have
the evidence of the Jewish work Zohar, and of
the Cabalistic and Rabbinical writers. They tell
us that the following proverb was current
among the Jews: ‘On the day of atonement, a
gift to Sammael.’ Hence Moses Gerundinensis
feels called to say that it is not a sacrifice, but
only done because commanded by God.
“Another step in the evidence is when we find
this same opinion passing from the Jewish to
the early Christian church. Origen was the
most learned of the Fathers, and on such a
point as this, the meaning of a Hebrew word,
his testimony is reliable. Origen says: ‘He who
is called in the Septuagint ἀποπομπαῖος, and
