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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 19 – The Triumph of the Saints
Further remarks on this point are deferred

to a consideration of chapter 21.

But if the city is the bride, it may be asked how

it can be said that she made herself ready.

Answer: By the figure of personification,

which attributes life and action to inanimate

objects. (See a notable instance in Psalms

114.) Again, the query may arise on verse 8

how a city can be arrayed in the righteousness

of the saints; but if we consider that a city

without inhabitants would be but a dreary and

cheerless place, we see at once how this is.

Reference is had to the countless number of its

glorified inhabitants in their shining apparel.

The raiment was granted to her. What is

granted to her? Isaiah 54 and Galatians 4:21-

31 will explain. To the new-covenant city are

granted many more children than to the old;