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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
border of his sanctuary, even to this

mountain, which his right hand had

purchased.” The “mountain” here mentioned

by David is the same as the “mountain of thine

inheritance” spoken of by Moses, in which the

people were to be planted; and this mountain

David calls, not the sanctuary, but only the

border of the sanctuary. What, then, was the

sanctuary? Verse 69 of the same psalm

informs us: “And he built his sanctuary like

high palaces, like the earth which he hath

established forever.” The same distinction

between the sanctuary and the land is pointed

out in the prayer of good king Jehoshaphat. 2

Chronicles 20:7, 8: “Art not thou our God, who

didst drive out the inhabitants of this land

before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the

seed of Abraham thy friend forever? And they

dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary