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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
temple of Solomon. In this more permanent

form it existed, saving only the time it lay in

ruins in Daniel’s day, till its final destruction

by the Romans in A. D. 70.

This is the only sanctuary connected with the

earth, concerning which the Bible gives us any

instruction, or history any record. But is there

nowhere any other? This was the sanctuary of

the first covenant; with that covenant it came

to an end; is there no sanctuary which

pertains to the second, or new covenant?

There must be; otherwise the analogy is

lacking between these covenants; and in this

case the first covenant had a system of

worship, which, though minutely described, is

unintelligible, and the second covenant has a

system of worship which is indefinite and

obscure. And Paul virtually asserts that the