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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
will not complete the sense, and anything

different will pervert the text; for a predicate

to be supplied cannot go beyond one already

expressed. The affirmation made in the text

pertains only to the many who awake. Nothing

is affirmed of the rest who do not then awake.

And to say that the expression “to shame and

everlasting contempt” applies to them, when

nothing is affirmed of them, is not only to

outrage the sense of the passage, but the laws

of language as well. And of the many who

awake, some come forth to everlasting life,

and some to shame and everlasting contempt,

which further proves a resurrection to

consciousness for these also; for while

contempt may be felt and manifested by

others toward those who are guilty, shame

can be felt and manifested only by the guilty

parties themselves. This resurrection,