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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
text in its most literal sense, what would it

prove respecting the sanctuary? It would

prove that the sanctuary was confined to one

of the twelve tribes; and hence that a portion

of the church only, not the whole of it,

constitutes the sanctuary. But this, proving

too little for the theory under consideration,

proves nothing. Why Judah is called the

sanctuary in the text quoted, need not be a

matter of perplexity, when we remember that

God chose Jerusalem, which was in Judah, as

the place of his sanctuary. “But chose,” says

David, “the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion

which he loved. And he built his sanctuary like

high palaces, like the earth which he hath

established forever.” This clearly shows the

connection which existed between Judah and

the sanctuary. That tribe itself was not the

sanctuary; but it is once spoken of as such