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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
We have seen that Daniel, at the close of that

chapter, says that he did not understand the

vision. Some portions of that vision were at

the time very clearly explained. It could not

have been these portions which he did not

understand. We therefore inquire what it was

which Daniel did not understand, or, in other

words, what part of the vision was there left

unexplained. In that vision four prominent

things are brought to view: (1) The Ram; (2)

The He-goat; (3) The Little Horn; (4) The

period of the 2300 days. The symbols of the

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

explained. Nothing, however, was said

respecting the time. This must therefore have

been the point which he did not understand;

and as without this the other portions of the

vision were of no avail, he could well say,

while the application of this period was left in