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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
people, he solemnly pronounces a blessing

upon those who keep the commandments of

God. Let those who believe in the abolition of

the law, candidly consider the decisive

bearing of this important fact.

Instead of the reading, “Blessed are they that

do his commandments,” some translations,

including the Revised Version, have, “Blessed

are they that wash their robes.” On this point

Alford’s Testament for English Readers has

this note: “The difference in the readings is

curious, being in the original that between

poiountes tas entolas autou, and plunontes tas

stolas autōn, either of which might easily be

mistaken for the other.” In view of this

statement, it is not surprising, perhaps, that

this difference of reading is found. But there

seems to be good evidence that the first is the