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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
was cumbered with cares and burdens, he
did not let this deprive him of the privilege of
studying into things of higher moment, even
the purposes of God as revealed to his
prophets. He understood by books, that is, the
writings of Jeremiah, that God would
accomplish seventy years in the captivity of
his people. This prediction is found in
Jeremiah 25:12; 29:10. The knowledge of it,
and the use that was made of it, shows that
Jeremiah was early regarded as a divinely
inspired prophet; otherwise his writings
would not have been so soon collected, and so
extensively copied. Though Daniel was for a
time contemporary with him, he had a copy of
his works which he carried with him in his
captivity; and though he was so great a
prophet himself, he was not above studying
carefully what God might reveal to others of
