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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
writings all the benefit that he intended. So

the language here used to Daniel was the same

as telling him that when the right time should

come, the wise would understand the

meaning of what he had written, and be

profited thereby. The time of the end was the

time in which the Spirit of God was to break

the seal from off this book; and

consequentlythis was the time during which

the wise should understand, while the wicked,

lost to all sense of the value of eternal truth,

with hearts callous and hardened in sin, would

grow continually more wicked and more

blind. None of the wicked understand. The

efforts which the wise put forth to understand,

they call folly and presumption, and ask, in

sneering phrase, “Where is the promise of his

coming?” And should the question be raised,

Of what time and what generation speaketh