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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
the demand of life by the law is thus

satisfied. The blood of the victim,

representative of a forfeited life, and the

vehicle of its guilt, was then taken by the

priest, and ministered before the Lord.

The sin of the individual was thus, by his

confession, by the slaying of the victim, and by

the ministry of the priest, transferred from

himself to the sanctuary. Victim after victim

was thus offered by the people. Day by day the

work went forward; and thus the sanctuary

continually became the receptacle of the sins

of the congregation. But this was not the final

disposition of these sins. The accumulated

guilt was removed by a special service, which

was called the cleansing of the sanctuary. This

service, in the type, occupied one day in the

year; and the tenth day of the seventh month,