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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
in the Hebrew Azazel, is no other than the

Devil.’

“In view, then, of the difficulties attending any

other meaning, and the accumulated evidence

in favor of this, Hengstenberg affirms with

great confidence that Azazel cannot be

anything else than another name for Satan.”

(2.) In the common acceptation of the word,

the term scapegoat is applied to anyone who

has become obnoxious to the claims of justice;

and while it is revolting to all our conceptions

of the character and glory of Christ to apply

this term to him, it must strike every one as a

very appropriate designation of the Devil, who

is styled in Scripture the accuser, adversary,

angel of the bottomless pit, Beelzebub, Belial,

dragon, enemy, evil spirit, father of lies,