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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
away by the hand of a fit man into a land not

inhabited, a land of separation, or

forgetfulness, the goat never again to appear

in the camp of Israel, and the sins of the people

to be remembered against them no more. This

service was for the purpose of cleansing the

people from their sins, and cleansing the

sanctuary and its sacred vessels. Leviticus

16:30, 33. By this process, sin was removed, —

but only in figure; for all that work was typical.

The reader to whom these views are new will

be ready here to inquire, perhaps, with some

astonishment, what this strange work could

possibly be designed to typify; what there is in

this dispensation which it was designed to

prefigure. We answer, A similar work in the

ministration of Christ, as Paul clearly teaches.

After stating, in Hebrews 8, that Christ is the