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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
to enforcing the worship of the true God. But

let us now add the fourth commandment,

restore to the law this precept, which many

are ready to contend has been expunged, and

see how the case will then stand, As we

examine this commandment, which contains

the declaration, “For in six days the Lord made

heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them

is,” etc., we see at once that we are reading the

requirements of Him who created all things.

The sun, then, is not the God of the decalogue;

the true God is he who made the sun. No object

in heaven or earth is the being who here

demands obedience; for the God of this law is

the one who made all created things. Now we

have a weapon against idolatry. Now this law

can no longer be applied to false gods, who

“have not made the heavens and the earth.”

Jeremiah 10:11. Now the author of this law