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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
anger be turned away. Finally, his mind

centers upon the holy sanctuary, God’s own

dwelling-place upon this earth, and he pleads

that its desolations may be repaired.

Daniel understood the seventy years of

captivity to be near their termination. From

his allusion to the sanctuary, it is evident that

he so far misunderstood the important vision

given him in chapter 8, as to suppose that the

2300 days, at the termination of which the

sanctuary was to be cleansed, expired at the

same time. This misapprehension was at once

corrected, when the angel came to give him

further instruction in answer to his prayer, the

narration of which is next given.

VERSE 20. And whiles I was speaking, and

praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of

my people Israel, and presenting my