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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
would prove them to be such under the old

dispensation. If Canaan was at any time the

sanctuary, it was such when Israel was

planted in it. If the church was ever the

sanctuary, it was such when Israel was led

forth from Egypt. If the earth was ever the

sanctuary, it was such during the period of

which we speak. To this period the arguments

urged in their favor apply as fully as to any

other period; and if they were not the

sanctuary during this time, then all the

arguments are destroyed which would show

that they ever were, or ever could be, the

sanctuary. But were they the sanctuary during

that time? This is a final question for these

theories; and Paul decides it in the negative,

by describing to us the tabernacle of Moses,

and telling us that that — not the earth, nor