response; for those who now render this decision will soon themselves reverse it, and that with terrible though unavailing earnestness. 4 The “words” and the “book” here spoken of, doubtless refer to the things which had been revealed to Daniel in this prophecy. These things were to be shut up and sealed, until the time of the end; that is, not to be specially studied, or to any great extent understood, till that time. The time of the end, as has already been shown, commenced in 1798. As the book