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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 8 – Vision of the Ram, He-Goat & Little Horn
hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be

cleansed.”

The daily sacrifice. We have proof in verse 13

that sacrifice is the wrong word to be supplied

in connection with the word daily. If the daily

sacrifice of the Jewish service is here meant,

or, in other words, the taking away of that

sacrifice, as some suppose, which sacrifice

was at a certain point of time taken away,

there would be no propriety in the question,

How long the vision concerning it? This

question evidently implies that those agents

or events to which the vision relates, occupy a

long series of years. Continuance of time is the

central idea. And the whole time of the vision

is filled by what is here called the daily and the

transgression of desolation. Hence the daily

cannot be the daily sacrifice of the Jews, the