Page 44 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
7); and (4) The commission to Nehemiah

from the same king in his twentieth year, B. C.

444. Nehemiah 2.

Dating from the first two of these decrees, the

seventy weeks, being weeks of years, *

490 years in all, would fall many years short

of reaching even to the Christian era; besides,

these decrees had reference principally to the

restoration of the temple and the temple-

worship of the Jews, and not to the restoration

of their civil state and polity, all of which must

be included in the expression, “To restore and

to build Jerusalem.”

These made a commencement of the work.

They were preliminary to what was afterward

accomplished. But of themselves they were

altogether insufficient, both in their dates and

in their nature, to meet the requirements of