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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 19 – The Triumph of the Saints
burning pitch, and not be quenched night

nor day, but that its smoke should go up

forever. Now this language is spoken, as all

must concede, of one of two things; either of

the particular country called Idumea, or of the

whole earth under that name. In either case it

is evident that the language must be limited.

Probably the whole earth is meant, from the

fact that the chapter opens with an address to

the earth and all that is therein, the world and

all that come forth of it; and the indignation of

the Lord is declared to be upon all nations.

Now, whether this refers to the depopulation

and desolation of the earth at the second

advent, or to the purifying fires that shall

purge it of the effects of the curse at the end of

the thousand years, the language must still be

limited; for after all this, a renovated earth is

to come forth, to be the abode of the nations of