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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
redeemed ones represented by the four

living creatures and the four and twenty

elders. They have golden vials, or vessels, full

of odors — or, as the margin reads, incense —

which are the prayers of saints. This is a work

of ministry such as pertains to priests.

Scott says: “It is indisputably manifest that the

four living creatures join in, or rather lead, the

worship of the Lamb as having redeemed

them to God; and this proves beyond

controversy that part of the redeemed church

is meant by this emblem, and not angels,

whose worship is next described, but in

language evidently different.”

A. Barnes, in his notes on this passage,

remarks: “The idea here is, therefore, that the

representatives of the church in heaven, the

elders, spoken of as ‘priests,’ are described as