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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
city;” and it will not be difficult to show that

the mountains and the city are both used

symbolically. The reader’s attention is asked

to the following points: —

(1.) We are informed in chapter 13 that one of

the seven heads was wounded to death. This

head therefore cannot be a literal mountain;

for it would be folly to speak of wounding a

mountain to death.

(2.) Each of the seven heads has a crown upon

it. But whoever saw a literal mountain with a

crown upon it?

(3.) The seven heads are evidently successive

in order of time; for we read, “Five are fallen,

and one is, and the other is not yet come.”

Revelation 17. But the seven hills on which

Rome is built, are not successive, and it would

be absurd to apply such language to them.