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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
denote the twelve apostles, then the stars

thrown down by the dragon before his

attempt to destroy the man child, or before the

Christian era, may denote a portion of the

rulers of the Jewish people. That the sun,

moon, and stars are sometimes used in this

symbolic sense, we have already had evidence

in chapter 8:12. The dragon being a symbol,

could deal only with symbolic stars; and the

chronology of the act here mentioned would

confine it to the Jewish people. Judea became

a Roman province sixty-three years before the

birth of the Messiah. The Jews had three

classes of rulers, — kings, priests, and the

Sanhedrim. A third of these, the kings, were

taken away by the Roman power. Philip Smith,

History of the World, Vol. III, p. 181, after

describing the siege of Jerusalem by the

Romans and Herod, and its capitulation in the