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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 19 – The Triumph of the Saints
and this song is sung, in connection with the

second coming of Christ at the

commencement of the thousand years.

Forever and Ever. — There can but one query

arise on this scripture, and that is how it can

be said that her smoke rose up forever and

ever. Does not this language imply eternity of

suffering? Let it be remembered that this is

borrowed language; and to gain a correct

understanding of it, we must go back to its

first introduction, and consider its import as

there used. In Isaiah 34 will be found the

language from which, in all probability, such

expressions as these are borrowed. Under the

figure of Idumea, a certain destruction is

brought to view; and it is said of that land that

its streams should be turned into pitch, its

dust into brimstone, that it should become