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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
the Vatican copy of the Septuagint, as being

the most faithful), it is rendered by

συνετμήθησαν (sunetmethesan), were cut off;

and in the Venetian copy by τέτμηνται

(tetmentai), have been cut.” The idea of

cutting off is preserved in the Vulgate, where

the phrase is “abbreviatae sunt,” are

shortened.

“Thus Chaldaic and Rabbinical authority, and

that of the earliest versions, the Septuagint

and Vulgate, give the single signification of

cutting off, to this verb.”

“Hengstenberg, who enters into a critical

examination of the original text, says: ‘But the

very use of the word, which does not

elsewhere occur, while others much more

frequently used, were at hand if Daniel had

wished to express the idea of determination,