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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
seen, the construction, the context, and the

connection require the literal meaning, and

render any other inadmissible.

Seventy weeks, then, or 490 days of the 2300,

were cut off upon, or allotted to, Jerusalem

and the Jews; and the events which were to be

consummated within that period are briefly

stated. The transgression was to be finished;

that is, the Jewish people were to fill up the

cup of their iniquity, which they did in the

rejection and crucifixion of Christ. An end of

sins, or of sin-offerings, was to be made. This

took place when the great offering was made

on Calvary. Reconciliation for iniquity was to

be provided. This was made by the sacrificial

death of the Son of God. Everlasting

righteousness was to be brought in; the

righteousness which our Lord manifested in