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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
Alas for the evils of our nature, which cut us

off from this communion! Oh for grace to

overcome these! that we may enjoy this

spiritual union here, and finally enter the

glories of his presence at the marriage supper

of the Lamb.

VERSE 24. Seventy weeks are determined

upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to

finish the transgression, and to make an end of

sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity,

and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and

to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to

anoint the most Holy.

Such are the first words the angel utters to

Daniel, toward imparting to him that

instruction which he came to give. Why does

he thus abruptly introduce a period of time?

We must again refer to the vision of chapter 8.