Page 11 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
from the definition of the term, and the

purpose for which a seal is used, as shown

above, we must understand a seal to be

strictly that which gives validity and

authenticity to enactments and laws. This is

found, though a literal seal may not be used, in

the name or signature of the law-making

power, expressed in such terms as to show

what the power is, and its right to make laws

and demand obedience. Even with a literal

seal, the name must always be used. (See the

references above given.) An instance of the

use of the name alone seems to occur in Daniel

6:8: “Now, O king, establish the decree, and

sign the writing, that it be not changed,

according to the law of the Medes and

Persians, which altereth not;” that is, affix the

signature of royalty, showing who it is that