Increase of Knowledge by Critical and Explanatory Commentary

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 18, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 51.

Increase of Knowledge.

By Critical and Explanatory Commentary

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Dan. 12:4. “Run to and fro”—not referring to the modern rapidity of locomotion, as some think, nor to Christian missionaries going about to preach the Gospel to the world at large, which the context scarcely admits, but, whereas now but few care for this prophecy of God, at “the time of the end,” that is, near its fulfilment, “many shall run to and fro,” that is, scrutinize it, running thru every page. Compare Hab. 2:2. It is thereby that the knowledge (namely, of God’s purposes as revealed in prophecy) shall be increased. This is probably being now fulfilled.—Critical and Explanatory Commentary.