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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
each of the twelve tribes, many suppose that

this work must have been accomplished as far

back at least as about the beginning of the

Christian era, when these tribes were literally

in existence. They do not see how it can apply

to our own time, when every trace of

distinction between these tribes has been so

long and so completely obliterated. We refer

such persons to the opening language of the

Epistle of James: “James, a servant of God and

of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes

which are scattered abroad, greeting. My

brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into

divers temptations,” etc. Those whom James

here addresses are (1) Christians; for they are

his brethren; (2) They are not the converts to

Christianity from the Jews, the twelve tribes of

his own day; for he addresses them in view of

the coming of the Lord. (See chapter 5.) He is