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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
original, from which the latter is a variation

by the errors of transcribers. Thus the Syriac

New Testament, one of the very earliest

translations from the original Greek, reads

according to the common English version. And

Cyprian, whose writings antedate any extant

Greek manuscript (Ante-Nicene Library, Vol.

XIII, p. 122), quotes the text as reading,

“Blessed are they that do his commandments.”

We may therefore safely consider this as the

genuine reading.

VERSE 15. For without are dogs, and

sorcerers, and whoremongers, and

murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever

loveth and maketh a lie.

Dog is the Bible symbol of a shameless and

impudent man. Who would wish to be left in

the company of those whose lot is outside of