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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 22 – The Tree and the River of Life
commandments, that they may have right to

the tree of life, and may enter in through the

gates into the city.

Christ here applies to himself the appellation

of Alpha and Omega. As applied to him, the

expression must be taken in a more limited

sense than when applied to the Father, as in

chapter 1:8. Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the

beginning and the end, of the great plan of

salvation. Verse 14, as before noticed, is the

language of Christ. The commandments of

which he speaks are his Father’s. Reference

can be had only to the ten commandments as

delivered on Mount Sinai. He pronounces a

blessing upon those who keep them. Thus in

the closing chapter of the word of God, and

near the very close of the last testimony which

the faithful and true Witness there left for his