PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel
John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson [1841-1923] · 367,027 words · 376 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Daniel — Section 301
s1tnotuary of Daphne. We know tbe orgies Behrme.nn's tre.nsle.tton is indefensible, "No that oonsool'8ted tbe groves of D1tpbne. one reme.ins to him, i.e. follows him;" he These would me.ke De.phne tbe le.st plitce gives no pe.rticulo.r reference. Thie view in "'hioh " Jewish high priest would seek assumes Onie.s II…
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nm.ny, and in the middle of the -week 119.cri- covenant, or making it burdeueome, ie flce and offoring shall oeue" - reading without analogy. Doth Hitzig and Hen~- n:11:': (yishbatl, )-" and in the temple shall be stenberg appeal to Mai. iii. l!l; ba. xui. the abominstion of deeolstion "-therefore 5; Job iii. 3, who…
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echool o.ro reduood to considerable diffi- the text or tho margin, we hrwc difficuHiee. culties in their endca.voure to square this pn.s- We have no instance of a bir,l supporting sn.go with their proconccivo<l not.ions. Bevrm itself by one wing. If ~p r1,'naph), n.<lrnite tho.t the na.tural eubject of the verb "win…
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,ummation, and that determined ehaH be ond of time , but it may be eomo earlier ro11red out "f'OII the dewlate. The Revised period; but thRt ie not revealed. The Yel'l!ion is ,·ery different here," And CYcn meaning of t·alal, is Msumed to be •• end " untotheoonsummntion, and the.t determined, not "ruin," ae asserted…
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VerEs, 16-19.-Prayer for pardon. In its tone and character, the ends it seeks and the pleas it urges, this prayer of Daniel's may be regarded as a. model prayer for the forgiveness of sins, I. 1TB OHABAOTER. The very atmosphere of this prayer is purifying a.nd inspiring. It is marked by several important characteristi…
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!,ides ~rom our Yiew the processes which connect our prayers with God'R replies. The rC''l"elnt10n thus made of the un~ecn world should confirm our faith in the necessity nnd power of prayer, and help us to understand in some way the manner iu which God answers it. l. Gon OI'l"EB SOME DLESSINGS O?-."LY IN RESPONSE …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-21.-The nation's advocate at God's bar. "Whiles I WBS speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel . , . touched me" (ver. 21), Our subject is the prayer of Daniel, and the following points will demand full and careful consideration, I. 'l'HE MOMENT IN TIME, This was most critical; fo…
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IIJ. lTs BOLEMN AND nELrnEnATE OUARACTEB. Imagine vividly the crisis. Tlte ftrM great world-power had o.lready gone doum. How long the second and third might la~t, who could toll? Then would appear the fourth, during whose existence "one like a Son of man" would come "with the clouds of heaven." TM deliverer from capti…
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theory very doubHul. We say, therefore," Reventy hebdomads of yearB;" and for the following reasons: 1. The Law had made hebdomads of years frumili,,r. (Lev. xxv. 1--4, 8-10,) 2, The magnitude of the eventB required ywrs. Seventy weeks of d11ys would be only one year and four months-too short a. time for the restoratio…
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G,,d. 2. 77,e adt•ent of rightcournc.;s, "To bring in everlasting righteousness." Mnny ( 'bri~tians overlook this, are content with pardon, forget that the end of the gospel i~ righteousness in heart rind life. N"ote, then: (1) The/act that this great crisis wne tu be signalized by the 11dvcnt of righteousness. (2) …
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clcnr (for <letnil, see tho histories, Rrcular anrl sacre,1): 1. Ee/ore 17,e t,:rne-.w:tioll of /nm· hundred and ninety years. Eiahty years from the time of Danid's prayer to "the restorntion," the moment whenc~ the four hundred and ninety arc to be reck,me•l. Hern the principul ovcnts uro: Jerusalem a desolation; th…
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J'llR~Rge b<>twcen the cutting off of Me~siah and the fall of the city and polity-between Cah·ary and the coming of 'l'it.m (Luke xix. 41-44). When Christ wept over the city, tbe nation in h<>11rt h11d rejected him. Formally, and in so mauy words, in the cour1;e of a few days they discarded their only Saviour. For tlmt…
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nbsolutely fix a dnte for certain events without good reason, nor is the fixtnre marle ~ogar<llese of other events. :r~at date for the termination of IRracl'8 hondago took rnto account, through the D1v111e presence, the temper anrl feeling prevalent amona the Jews-took into account even this very prayer of Daniel. S…
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. Vers_. 20-27.-Praye,· opens wider horfrons of God's kingdom. We havo here R ~1gnRl rnst,mce of the fact that God not only answers human prRyer, hut gives II more than we RSk" or conceive. The tliino- which Daniel asked was small cotnpared with what God bestowed. Compared wi1h contemporary men, Daniel etood above t…
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lhnt no triumph Is renl or enduring which is not the triumph of right()o,rnness over sin, V, LARGER REVEl,ATION CENTRES IN THE PERSON AND WOR!C OF MEBBIAH. If now nnd then God should lift us up to some spiritual height, and give us a wider visi0n of human destiny, wo should be amused and saddened a.t the littleness…
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not i'!11, before him. Aqnile. he.a the sRme A thing ,oa.e revealed unto Daniel ,chose Mffl8 reRding; here 11,i~ (tinba) is taken in its toaR calkd Belteshauar. "Thing" is tho nsunl sense of "host," "And I understood it general term dabar, which means sometimes in vision." Here the LXX. has•~ instee.d of "decree," s…
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vision. This ie B fairly correct rendering bent on him after he could regulate hie of the Hebrew, Von Lengorlce wonlcl mBke own affnirs. His ordinary hflhit was t.o cat the verbs imperative, which certainly they flesh and to <lrinlc wine; nut dnring these might be, so for BB form goes, bnt the in- weeks of fast, he den…
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foreign lnnd, why is be thus reprosented as ,1ie~,h e.s ohry,olithm-n intorprctl\tion very not part.e,king of the P&l!obl\l feast? It is true genore.lly followed now. In the Mn.ssorctio thal., with the temple in ruins, the Pusobal text, the use of the nmnore.l "one," almost lamb oould not be sl&iu iu the way enjoine…
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tincLly s11,ye tiJnt it w11e I\ man, In tho of them. Theodotion's rendcrincr ~ota con- cnso of E~cldol, it w11e II thoopbnny which firms this. Dn.niel explains ho;,' ho ;!,one he enw; 1t was nn nngelophany which had seen t~o vision, o.nd narrates the olfeds nppo11red to Daniel. " 'fhe voice of a ~ontact with_ the sp…
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pa"l!ago in Job render it certain that it ie desires" (which eee). Understand the 1nom, 1he original. It seome more likely to be a t.hat I epeak unto thee; "have understand• change introduood to bring the revelRtion ing in the words," or better," matters, whioh to D1miel in line with other prophetic I am spee.king or t…
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tendornoee. Ziiolclor eeee in it tho.t in the rlelinorl the JewiHh irlcnR a.a to the nnm~a Divine oouneel Go.briel wo.e commieeioned, of the o.ngcla, they began to ho.vo cl~11rer but wo.e hindered for reo.eone o.esigned in ideas of their functions. 'fhey reache,l tli~ the next vereo. ideo. that every race ho.d its g…
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11ng-<'ls mcntionPd, but thoir names l\re follow tho LXX. and Thoodotion in reading given, and functionB arc assigned to them• cithor RB Moinhold a.nd Dehrma.nn, )'1;1~,:iln) but they arc numbered ae four, not seven'. or better, 118 Grii.tz, •1;1-:u:,111 \r-it:t, RB tho 0011 Enoch is posterior to 'fobit, and finds I…
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1nonni11 6 tho voraions o.Ucich to It. The tho previous chapter, vor. 21, the nn"rl opinion wo inrlicnto lirnle support in the Go.hriel "touches" Dank!. The cmplia';.is dumbness of Znchcirine, tho fo.thcr of John of tho a.et, in the present in"tnncc docs not Do.f tiet, nftcr Gnhrlel npponrcd to him, lio in tho fnct …
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ronders, lrnlitm. The Arama.io influonoe is ia the oombina.tion which we find in our OOl'n in "q'D (haycli) instead of 'I('~ (' aych). Lord's life ; without faith even the miracu- " How Mn the servant,'' eto., exhibits re- lous power of our Lord could not be put spect and humility. FOf' <U for me, eto. forth. Aa we …
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knowlc,lgo of the Divine plrm only limiter!. tho "prince" talking with Dnniel, is the His instrument-the nation committed to angel of prophecy, o.nd therefor~ or the his charge-is yet more imperfect. Let ELD idea.I kingdom. Keil would tnke the first imperfect being, however holy, have e. meaning of yatza', e.nrl would …
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the idea had been that Gabriel was c11.llcrl matters, that these things itro notc,l which to hmry back to hie post because of the form the succeeding section. At the snme thrcCLtened approach of the Prince of Grcci:t, tirno, tho form the representation of the then it might be defended; only even then heavenly books,…
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anxiety about the good opinion of men directly counteracts the innuence of tlirJRo emotions of spiritual grief and shame before God which fasting is snr,posed to expr, s~. 'l'hus ostentatious fasting becomes hypocritical (Matt. vi. 16). 2. Formal fasting. Posting which implies no real self-denial, though certain rules …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 1-12, 14-19.-The vision of the <Jhrist. "I was left alone, and ee.w this great \'ision" (,·er. 8). ]t is well to begin by clearing up the context. We have now only one more prophecy in Daniel. This occupies the eleventh chapter. The tenth contains a prologue to the prophecy; the twel…
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of Divine revelations. (Ver. 11.) No need of cringing. We ourselves are morle in the image of God, and have affinity with the Divine. 2. He does so grarlunlly. Daniel was first flat on his face; then on all fours; then half-raised and trembling. and finally stood upright on his feet. In this, see how man ie gradually J…
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of !Rn1el'e e?cmies. (3) Spec~lities. (a) This campaign was carried on by th, _ Angel-God himself. (b) But aided by Michail. IIere should be noted the doctrine th~t angel_s 1a11d men may he co-workers together toith God, (c) Was eynchro11011, with Daniels prayer. All the WI\Y through tho twenty-one dl\ye the prl\yer…
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II. TIIE 8UDBTANOE ot TIIE VISION, It wns the vision of a celestial beinrr in the form nnd raimont of a man. To what extent this augu.~t person, as he app~are<l to I?a.nicl, appeared in hie native essence, or accommodated himself to hum"n eyes, no hvrng mnu can say. Whother the unfa.llen angels have any definite form …
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Vere. 11-21.- Variety of angeli,c service. It is quite legitima.te for us to reason from God's conduct towards men in the past to his probable conduct towards men now. If in his wisdom he employed his angels to be ministers of good to Daniel and to hrnel two thousand years ago, we may conclude that it is an exercise…
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three weeks no sign of answer came from heaven. Yet, a.ll the while, answer had come, though he we.a unconscious of it. Daniel was concerned, not for bim•elf but for Lhe well-being 11nd forhmes of Israel. But be might rest assured that God' bad more nt heart these interests-than man, however zealous, ever can. This rnp…
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oth<'r, iind the finiil leUere are the siime. little of angelio natures o.nd their limitRtiona llfi~tnke, then, we.s ensy. The first letter that the phrase may be quite natur1tl. 'fhe of ·,~ nnd 7Sn is tlio some, and the words meaning is not mRtorially altered if we wnuld be lie.ble to be road in ncoord1mco rend, "H…
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na.me the usurper a.ssumcd, "Smcrdie; " but Maesoretic more closely; ho ro,nr1ora "n11t Ctceioe ea.lie him "Tnnyoxa.rcee;" Xeno- when his kingrlom stood (shn.11 sta~d) it phon, "Ta.na.oxa.ree;" nnd lEechylus, ehe.Il be broken, and shall bfl scntt,,rcr\ to "Mardoe." We know the.t Arta.xorxee the four winds of heaven;…
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1he f<>w troops with which, llftcr the battle the M1u1soretio: at the end of the voree the nf I~ Rzo.. he rc<'over!'d possession of Be.by- ditforencc is considerable, "But power shl\ll lonill. He <'.ertRinh became br fe.r the most not be in her, from the fear whioh she pnwerful of tbe e·U('CCSSO!'B of A lexRnder. fm…
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entor into tho province of tho king of tho nncl ',Viner, with rorP,renc" to thi 8 veiae. north, nml shall o.buso thorn, nnd take The meaning O.H1:1igned to th,; wor<L in tho possession." 'fhore must ho.vo been very Authorized is drawn from Itashi, and iR in different mo.nuscript renclings to explain accordo.nce with th…
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Y,,r. !l.-So the king or the south ehe.ll ,·~ry warlike. Ile began to n•~nil Ryrill, come into hie kingdom, e.nd she.11 return whit-.h was in the possession of rhilopator, into his own land. 'fhc Sept111\gint Version but wne intern1pted by news of wnr in the differR kss thnu usnnl from the MI\Sso- for Enst. After I\…
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dmrn many ten tlumBanrl•. Tliis, most pro- of tl,y people Rhall Lo cxollc•rl to cstal,Ii,h b1tl,ly, refers lo tho completo vidory o.t the vieion, and they shall l:wcr,mc weak." Tinphia, whcro Antiochus was reported to If there wero r1ny trace of un,.crtainty in havo lost ten thousand men. 'fhcre is thus tho reo.ding…
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HebrC'w kxt we.s before the tran~litlor when oo cornmmert. Thie ccrte.inly contrndlota h_e rendered, "tum his spears." Theodo- hietory as we he.vo it elsewhere. The Ro- hon &grces with the MRSsoretic in the first vieed is little better, "And in his hand portion, and with the LXX. in the l&tter. shall be destruction,…
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this, when hor father's cumies were tlefe11,ted temple of Jove (Ilel) in Elymaia. nut the by the Romans, she joined with her husband attempt he.ving been dia<'overcd, tl1ere Wll.B in sending congratulations to the Senate of a concourse of the inlu1bit~nta an,l ho w,.e Rome. slain with a.II his forces." Th~ resemhle.noo…
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of tw"l'"" Y<'nre wns c-Nlnin!r much shorter e.ppcars Al! the party dORiring thn rh~ngo thnn tlrnt of his fn !Ler Antioehus, but longer of hostogo. To wl,om tliey ~ltall t1ot give Iha than thut of Epiplmn<'B bis brother, or of honour of the kingdom. 'l'h&t certainly ie SPh•ucns III. his nnclo. The Greek ver- not the…
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nominal suffix in milpanayo, "hofore him." whnt hi• fathers h1<vo not <lrmc, nor hia As Stunrl rtcutcly remrtrk•, lirt,I tho refcrenre fathers' fathers; o.nd ho shall dispcrHn In b•,-ecth been to tho Divino covonnnt with nmong them co.ptivcs (1rpovoµ.,/v), nnrl apoil tl1c Jews, wo should hnve h11,l hal,b•erelh. nnd pos…
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Phyecon. The king, Pt-O!emy, Wl\8 young; conveyed practically I\ 11risoncr with his hie gc>nerale, however, took up the ohRllenge, uncle's e.rmy, whilo Epiphe.nee carried on nnd eet on the field I\ le.rge e.rmy; but th" hie invasion of l~gypt. 'l'hoy rlinod nt ona Rrmy we.a defoe.ted, e.nd Antioohue ad- table, and prob…
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they o.grcocl to !\ joint oocupBtion of the ,Judaism. And M'l18 intelligen~e v,i/1, them throno. It is snpposccl this second expecli• !hat fm-,ake th'l holy wvenant. It is not tion wo.s intended, if possible, to break up 1mprohable that Antiochus was enennr0-1sed this o.grocmont. to make the attempt he did, by the f…
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Rnd Thoodotion by •!• ProbRbly the most Epiphe.nes. Ho used them to gain tho nt1tural Yiew is t-0 tRke the preposition RB people over to his views. But the people equiYRlent to "by," the.t is, he she.ll set that do 1mow their God shall be atrono, and physical forces in motion. And they shall do nploits. Even when Ep…
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Ver. 84.-Now when they ■hall bll, they or the wiee ie omittc,l. Although the Vnl- shall be holpen with a little help: but many ge,te llllpporte the :rtfoswirctic in tliis, we fed ■hall olee.ve to them with flatteries, The it auspicious. Ancl ,ome of !hem, of muter- Septuagint rendering ie, "And whPn they standing sh…
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('Dee WBB t.o Constantine the Gree.t. Re.ehi, this, "And no god of hie fa.there will he followe,1 by Ce.lvin, would me.ke it the regard (,rvvl,,r<i) and e. desire of women." 1 RomRn Empire personified. He notices This clnnse eta.nde thus incomplete, o.a if the t.he RRhbins' referring this t.o Titus e.nd transl1ttor wou…
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Ing to tho LXX. re1tlly belongs to this, and he shall oanH them to rnle ov11r man:, "Strong nBtione ehttll bo subject to him," and . shall divide the land for gain. Th~ rending O')f 0•9N7 ineteBd of 0•1~9 r;il,.l\'?· vers10n _of th~ LXX. is eomewhe.t difficult to Thero le n in the Mnesorotio, where• he.s been render…
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,hnll m111tiply in g10f"I/. Those morocn1Lries bnt the end of this distress. It ie JJOssible of his he would" incrol\BP, Rnd give over the.t to the writer the entranco of the now more honour to !,hem. And he ehn/.l oaUBe ore.-tho l\foesi!lnio time-would coinoide ihem lo rule o""r mnny. These mercenttries with the fe…
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oxplnna.lion Cavoure,1 by Keil of tble whole esoape. Edom, Moab, llnd Ammon :iro chrtJ)tor, tho.t the Icing of the north is mentioned, but Moab had by this time die- nnt1oluist, ie applied here; but eo much of llppeared e.s e, national name. It may have tho earlier portion of this cbo.pter can be been inserted-as su…
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his hand over the countries, and the land of individuate belonging t.o these ne.tiono.litlea Egypt she.11 eeoe.pe from his hands." The 110.d joined his armies. This is altogether Yulgate bes nothing to justify reme.rk. e. moro ornate and poetioe.l pe.esage than the Proba.bly this verso, in the we.y it is ren- rest o…
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to compel tho Jews to become Greeks in might not he.vo previously occurred; tho religio11, punishing with doe.th refusal to literature of ancient Hebrew is exceedingly yield to his demands (l Mo.cc. i. 2-1-28; limited. Between the BeaB in the gloTimta Josephus, • Ant.,' xii. 5. 8). holy mountain. Hiivemick maint11in…
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Ver. 28.-Evil prosperity. I. TEMPORAL PROSPERITY KAY BE ATTAINED APART FROM ¥ORAL GOODNESS. It is not found in experience that the old Jewish ideal is realizable in which the righteous a.11 prosper, md the wicked are all in adversity (Job xxxvi. 11, 12). Bad men often grow rich and flourish in external success (Ps. lxx…
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Ver. 35.-Purged by trial. I. THE CmracH NEEDS PUJITT'ICATION. The people "of understanding" are to be purged and made white. These are clearly the people who are "wise unto salvation "-the true Church. 1. The ends of the gospel are not attained until the Church is completely purified. The first aim is to gather men int…
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of Israel, shall then bo prominent; that there shall be de! i verance for all the truo Israel of God, viz. of those whose nnmes are written in "the book." Of that book we treat; but Reeking light upon it from the later revelations of God. By "the boolt" we understand the register of the redeemed of the Lord-the heav…
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side of God 11nd truth. The forces of life are unseen; thoy aro made visible only in their effects. Il. WHEN THE SEASON IS OPPORTUNE, THE TRUTB SHALL BB REVEALED. "Now" (RB.id Gabriel to Daniel) "will I show thee the truth." It is evident that the 11nsinning angels 11re not in possession of all knowlenge. They are …
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world wHh the nnprofitableneRs of ein; and prepares the w:w for the advent of the renl King of men. It is best, on the whole, that men should live i,-, communities and natio~s- beat,,on the whole, that some ?hould be r~lers and tome should be subjects; best that Goel s hancl should not appear ID the selection of earthl…
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a faithful record or history has proceeded from the hands of an intelligent mnn, we are also compelled to conclude that accnrate predictions of distinct events can only result from supernatural agency-a revelation made from heaveu.-D. Vere. 21-46.-The specious sucuss of a bad monarch. There ls mystery in tho fact tha…
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IV. SucOEBSFUL WI0KEDNEBB BERVEB TO FORTIFY THE COURAGE AND FAITH OP' Tlll!I RIOHTEOUB, '£he tyrannic violence of Antiochus drove good men nearer to God. it led them to examine the foundations of their hope; it brought them to the fount of Divine strength; it disposed them to inflame each other's zeal. Though the pi…
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