Page 51 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
5. It is evident from the prayer of Ezra, as

recorded in chapter 9:9 of his book, that he

considered himself fully empowered to

proceed with the building of the city and the

wall; and it is evident that he understood,

further, that the conditional prophecies

concerning his people were then fulfilled,

from the closing words of that prayer, in

which he says, “Should we again break thy

commandments, and join in affinity with the

people of these abominations? wouldst not

thou be angry with us till thou hadst

consumed us, so that there should be no

remnant nor escaping?”

6. Reckoning from the commission to

Nehemiah, B. C. 444, the dates throughout are

entirely disarranged; for from that point the

troublesome times which were to attend the