LETTER TO MOSES STUART

REV. MOSES STUART: — Dear Sir, — I have read your Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy. According to your request, I have heard you through. Will you please look at Daniel 7:21, 22: “I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them, until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”MRSH 63.2

This horn, you tell us, is Antiochus Epiphanes. You also show that Scripture has no occult or hidden meaning.MRSH 63.3

Now, my dear sir, as you are a learned man and I an ignorant one, will you please inform us, from the plain and obvious import of the scripture language, how it was, or is, or is to be, that Antiochus Epiphanes, who died a hundred and sixty-four years before Christ was born, either did, or does, or will make war with the saints, and prevail against them, until the Ancient of days comes, and judgment is given to the saints of the Most High, and the time comes, that the saints possess the kingdom. — Yours, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”MRSH 63.4

CHARLES FITCH.
Albany, Aug. 13, 1842.