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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 19 – The Triumph of the Saints
attire; for he has on his vesture and on his

thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord

of lords. This is in harmony with the character

in which he here appears; for it was the

custom of warriors anciently to have some

kind of title inscribed upon their vesture.

Verse 17. What is to be understood by the

angel standing in the sun? In chapter 16:17,

we read of the seventh vial being poured out

into the air, from which it was inferred that as

the air envelops the whole earth, that plague

would be universal. May not the same

principle of interpretation apply here, and

show that the angel standing in the sun, and

issuing his call from thence to the fowls of

heaven to come to the supper of the great God,

denotes that this proclamation will go

wherever the sun’s rays fall upon this earth?

And the fowls will be obedient to the call, and