Page 3 - 05 The Heavenly Sanctuary Continued

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
The Book. — The books in use at the time the

Revelation was given were not in the form of

books as now made. They did not consist of a

series of leaves bound together, but were

composed of strips of parchment or other

material, longer or shorter, one or more, and

rolled up. On this point, Wesley remarks: —

“The usual books of the ancients were not like

ours, but were volumes, or long pieces of

parchment, rolled upon a long stick, as we

frequently roll silks. Such was this

represented, which was sealed with seven

seals. Not as if the apostle saw all the seals at

once; for there were seven volumes wrapped

up one within another, each of which was

sealed; so that upon opening and unrolling the

first, the second appeared to be sealed up till

that was opened, and so on to the seventh.”