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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
On the same point, Scott remarks: “It

appeared as a roll consisting of several

parchments, according to the custom of those

times; and though it was supposed to he

written within, yet nothing could be read till

the seals were loosed. It was afterward found

to contain seven parchments, or small

volumes, each of which was separately sealed;

but if all the seals had been on the outside,

nothing could have been read till they had all

been loosed; whereas the loosing of each seal

was followed by some discovery of the

contents of the roll. Yet the appearance on the

outside seems to have indicated that it

consisted of seven, or at least of several parts.”

Bloomfield says: “The long rolls of parchment

used by the ancients, which we call books,

were seldom written but on one side; namely,