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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
distinct from itself, called the vision. What

vision it is, there is no difficulty in

determining. It naturally and obviously refers

to the vision which was not fully explained to

Daniel, and to which Gabriel calls his attention

in the preceding verse, — the vision of the 8th

chapter. Daniel tells us that Gabriel was

commanded to make him understand that

vision (8:16). This was not fully done at that

interview connected with the vision; he is

therefore sent to give Daniel the needed ‘skill

and understanding,’ — to explain its ‘meaning’

by communicating to him the prediction of the

seventy weeks.”

“We claim that the ninth of Daniel is an

appendix to the eighth, and that the seventy

weeks and the 2300 days, or years, commence