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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
reference being made to spiritual things, the

eye-salve must denote that by which our

spiritual discernment is quickened. There is

but one agent revealed to us in the word of

God by which this is accomplished, and that is

the Holy Spirit. In Acts 10:38 we read that

“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

Ghost.” And the same writer through whom

came this Revelation from Jesus Christ, wrote

to the church in his first epistle (chapter 2:20)

as follows: “But ye have an unction from the

Holy One, and ye know all things.” In verse 27

he enlarges upon this point thus: “But the

anointing which ye have received of him

abideth in you, and ye need not that any man

teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth

you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and

even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in

him.” By referring to his Gospel, it is found that