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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
Where, then, shall we look for the sanctuary

of the new covenant? Paul, by the use of the

word also, in Hebrews 9:1, intimates that he

had before spoken of this sanctuary. We turn

back to the beginning of the previous chapter,

and find him summing up his foregoing

arguments as follows: “How of the things

which we have spoken this is the sum: We

have such an high priest, who is set on the

right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the

heavens; a minister of the sanctuary, and of

the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched,

and not man.” Can there be any doubt that we

have in this text the sanctuary of the new

covenant? A plain allusion is here made to the

sanctuary of the first covenant. That was

pitched by man, erected by Moses; this was

pitched by the Lord, not by man. That was the

place where the earthly priests performed