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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
indefinite period of the cleansing of the

sanctuary. So in the text before us, there is

given the period of a time, times, and a half, or

1260 years, and then an indefinite period for

the continuance of the scattering of the power

of the holy people, before the consummation.

The 1260 years mark the period of papal

supremacy. Why is this period here

introduced? — Probably because this power is

the one which does more than any other in the

world’s history toward scattering the power

of the holy people, or oppressing the church of

God. But what shall we understand by the

expression, “Shall have accomplished to

scatter the power of the holy people”? A literal

translation of the Septuagint seems to present

it in a clearer light: “When he shall have

finished the scattering of the power of the holy