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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
opportunity, and standing afar off, lament its

fall; and just in proportion to their terror and

amazement at the evil impending, would be

the distance at which they would stand from

their devoted city. Now the figure the apostle

uses would not be complete without a feature

of this kind; and so he uses it, not to imply that

people would literally flee from the symbolic

city, which would be impossible, but to denote

their terror and amazement at the descending

judgments.

VERSE 12. The merchandise of gold, and

silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and

fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet,

and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of

ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious

wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13.

And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and