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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
safely taken that they reach to the cleansing

of the heavenly sanctuary, for the earthly was

to be cleansed each year; and we make the

prophet utter nonsense, if we understand him

as saying that at the end of 2300 days, a period

of time over six years in length, even if we take

them literally, an event should take place

which was to occur regularly every year. The

heavenly sanctuary is the one in which the

decision of all cases is to be rendered. The

progress of the work there is what it

especially concerns mankind to know. If

people understood the bearing of these

subjects on their eternal interests, with what

earnestness and anxiety would they give them

their most careful and prayerful study. See on

chapter 9:20 and onward, an argument on the

2300 days, showing at what point they