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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
obscurity, that he did not understand the

vision.

If this view of the subject is correct, we should

naturally expect, when the angel completed

his explanation of the vision, that he would

commence with the very point which had

been omitted; namely, the time. And this we

find to be true in fact. After citing Daniel’s

attention back to the former vision in the most

direct and emphatic manner, and assuring

him that he had now come forth to give him

understanding in the matter, he commences

upon the very point there omitted, and says,

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy

people and upon thy holy city.”

But how does this language show any

connection with the 2300 days, or throw any

light upon that period? We answer: The