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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
language cannot be intelligibly referred to
anything else; for the word here rendered
determined signifies “cut off;” and there is no
period from which the seventy weeks could be
cut off but the 2300 days of the previous
vision. How direct and natural, then, is the
connection. Daniel’s attention is fixed upon
the 2300 days, which he did not understand,
by the angel’s directing him to the former
vision; and he says, “Seventy weeks are cut
off.” Cut off from what? — The 2300 days,
most assuredly.
Proof may be called for that the word
rendered determined signifies to cut off. An
abundance can be given. The Hebrew word
thus translated is ךְ ַּת ְחֶנ, nehhtak. This word
Gesenius, in his Hebrew Lexicon, defines as
follows: “Properly, to cut off; tropically, to
