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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
1798. As the book was closed up and sealed

to that time, the plain inference is that at that

time, or from that point, the book would be

unsealed; that is, people would be better able

to understand it, and would have their

attention specially called to this part of the

inspired word. Of what has been done on the

subject of prophecy since that time, it is

unnecessary to remind the reader. The

prophecies, especially Daniel’s prophecy, have

been under examination by all students of the

word wherever civilization has spread abroad

its light upon the earth. And so the remainder

of the verse, being a prediction of what should

take place after the time of the end

commenced, says, “Many shall run to and fro,

and knowledge shall be increased.” Whether

this running to and fro refers to the passing of

people from place to place, and the great