A New Interpretation by G. W. A.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · BATTLE CREEK, MICH. · Jan 17, 1871

A New Interpretation.

By G. W. A.

SAYS Dr. Cumming, the renowned English Adventist, in "The Last Warning Cry," while speaking of Dan. 12:4, "This is literally the age of going to and fro. It is eminently the age of locomotion. The words of Daniel, ‘Knowledge shall be increased,’ are susceptible of two versions. Here are two Hebrew words almost identical in spelling. The translation of one, and the one, I admit, accepted by the greatest number of writers, is, ‘And knowledge shall be increased;’ but the translation given by others, and of which the Hebrew word is susceptible, is, ‘And knowledge shall be flashed along.’ If this last be a just reading, it must remind us of the mysterious, whispering wire, at one end of which you express your wish, your hope, your message, and in less than an hour it is echoed in the most distant capital of Europe.” Pp. 324, 325.

If the above criticism be a correct one, and certainly it comes from a scholarly pen, it sheds light on a very important passage. G. W. A.