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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
who can say that he does not still retain it?
If, then, our great High Priest is a literal being,
he must have a literal place in which to
minister. And if the four living creatures and
the four and twenty elders represent those
whom Christ led up from the captivity of death
at the time of his resurrection and ascension,
why are they not just as literal beings while
there in heaven as they were when they
ascended?
The Song. — It is called “a new song,” new,
probably, in respect to the occasion and the
composition. They were the first that could
sing it, being the first that were redeemed.
They call themselves kings and priests. In
what sense they are priests has already been
noticed, they being the assistants of Christ in
his priestly work. In the same sense,
