Page 45 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
the prophecy; and thus failing in every

respect, they cannot be brought into the

controversy as marking the point from which

the seventy weeks are to date. The only

question now lies between the decrees which

were granted to Ezra and to Nehemiah

respectively.

The facts between which we are to decide here

are briefly these: In 457 B. C., a decree was

granted to Ezra by the Persian emperor

Artaxerxes Longimanus to go up to Jerusalem

with as many of his people as were minded to

go with him. The commission granted him an

unlimited amount of treasure, to beautify the

house of God, to procure offerings for its

service, and to do whatever else might seem

good unto him. It empowered him to ordain

laws, set magistrates and judges, and execute