Page 14 - 05 The Heavenly Sanctuary Continued

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
is a number denoting completeness, or

perfection. We are thus taught that perfect

power and perfect wisdom in here in the

Lamb, through the operation of the Spirit of

God, called the seven Spirits of God, to denote

the fulness and perfection of its operation.

He Came and Took the Book. —

Commentators have found an incongruity in

the idea that the book was taken by a lamb,

and have had recourse to several expedients

to avoid the difficulty. But is it not a well-

established principle that any action may be

attributed to a symbol which could be

appropriately performed by the person or

being represented by the symbol? And is not

this all the explanation that the passage

needs? The lamb, we know, is a symbol of

Christ. We know there is nothing incongruous