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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
the context, to suppose that the word daily

refers to a desolating power, like the

“transgression of desolation,” with which it is

connected. Then we have two desolating

powers, which for a long period oppress, or

desolate the church. The Hebrew, ע ַשֶּפַהְו די ִמ ָּתַה

םֵמֹׁש, justifies this construction; the last word,

םֵמֹׁש , desolation, having a common relation to

the two preceding nouns, the perpetual and

the transgression, which are connected by the

conjunction and. Literally, it may be rendered,

“How long the vision [concerning] the

continuance and the transgression of

desolation?” the word desolation being

related to both continuance and

transgression, as though it were expressed in

full, thus: “The continuance of desolation and

the transgression of desolation.” By the

“continuance of desolation,” or the perpetual