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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
But Daniel had no difficulty in

understanding what the angel told him about

the ram, he-goat, and little horn, the kingdoms

of Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Nor was he

mistaken in regard to the ending of the

seventy years’ captivity. But the burden of his

petition was respecting the repairing of the

desolations of the sanctuary, which lay in

ruins; and he had undoubtedly drawn the

conclusion that when the end of the seventy

years’ captivity came, the time would come for

the fulfillment of what the angel had said

respecting the cleansing of the sanctuary at

the end of the 2300 days. Now he must be set

right. And this explains why at this particular

time, so soon after the previous vision,

instruction was sent to him. Now the seventy

years of captivity were drawing to their close,

and Daniel was applying to a wrong issue the