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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
Others in high positions, and influential
journals in the Christian world, speak in a
similar strain. It has come to be a very easy
thing to accuse the record of inaccuracy, and
charge the sacred writers with a failure to
comprehend their subjects. Much of the body
of modern dogmatic theology may be
classified under two heads, — funguses and
fossils; and whatever declarations of Scripture
do not agree with these conceptions, are set
down as incorrect. Paul, they say, held
erroneous ideas on a number of questions,
more especially in reference to the second
coming of Christ; and one learned doctor of
divinity, as quoted without dissent in a leading
religious journal, has asserted that even Christ
himself misapprehended the question he was
discussing, according to the record of
Matthew 24! From the standpoint of such a
