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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
they would be rejected therefor very

speedily. Hence such cannot be its meaning.

We are consequently forced to the conclusion

that by this language our Lord has no

reference whatever to those outside of his

church, but that he refers to three degrees of

spiritual affections, two of which are more

acceptable to him than the third. Heat and cold

are preferable to lukewarmness. But what

kind of a spiritual state is denoted by the term

cold? We may remark first that it is a state of

feeling. In this respect it is superior to

lukewarmness, which is a state of

comparative insensibility, indifference, and

supreme self-satisfaction. To be hot is also to

be in a state of feeling. And as hot denotes

joyous fervency, and a lively exercise of all the

affections, with a heart buoyant with the