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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
they lift up their voices in lamentation for

the fate of this great city; for if there is

anything which will draw from the men of this

generation a sincere cry of distress, it is that

which touches their treasures. And there is a

fitness in this retribution, They who but a

short time before had issued a decree that the

saints of God should neither buy nor sell, now

find themselves put under the same

restriction by a far more effectual process.

The question may arise how persons involved

in the same calamity can stand afar off and

lament, etc.; but it must be remembered that

this desolation is brought to view under a

figure, and the figure is that of a city visited

with destruction. Should calamity come upon

a literal city, it would be natural for its

inhabitants to flee from that city if they had