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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
on which it was performed, was called the

day of atonement. On this day, while all Israel

refrained from work and afflicted their souls,

the priest brought two goats, and presented

them before the Lord at the door of the

tabernacle of the congregation. On these goats

he cast lots; one lot for the Lord, and the other

lot for the scape-goat. The one upon which the

Lord’s lot fell, was then slain, and his blood

was carried by the priest into the most holy

place of the sanctuary, and sprinkled upon the

mercy-seat. And this was the only day on

which he was permitted to enter into that

apartment. Coming forth, he was then to lay

both his hands upon the head of the scape-

goat, confess over him all the iniquities of the

children of Israel, and all their transgressions

in all their sins, and, thus putting them upon

his head (Leviticus 16:21), he was to send him