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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
But in the resurrection brought to view in
the verse before us, many of both righteous
and wicked come up together. It cannot
therefore be the first resurrection, which
includes the righteous only, nor the second
resurrection, which is as distinctly confined to
the wicked. If the text read, Many of them that
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake to
everlasting life, then the “many” might be
interpreted as including all the righteous, and
the resurrection be that of the just at the
second coming of Christ. But the fact that
some of the many are wicked, and rise to
shame and everlasting contempt, bars the way
to such an application.
It may be objected that this text does not
affirm the awakening of any but the righteous,
according to the translation of Bush and
