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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
work, had fallen into embarrassment, which

Nehemiah wished to relieve.

3. If any should contend that Nehemiah’s

commission must be a decree, because the

object of his request was that he might build

the city, it is sufficient to reply, as shown

above, that gates and walls had been built

previous to his going up; besides, the work of

building which he went to perform was

accomplished in fifty-two days; whereas, the

prophecy allows for the building of the city,

seven weeks, or forty-nine years.

4. There was nothing granted to Nehemiah

which was not embraced in the decree to Ezra;

while the latter had all the forms and

conditions of a decree, and was vastly more

ample in its provisions.