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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
building of the street and wall, did not last

seven weeks, or forty-nine years. Reckoning

from that date, the sixty-nine weeks, or 483

years, which were to extend to the Messiah the

Prince, bring us to A. D. 40; but Jesus was

baptized of John in Jordan, and the voice of the

Father was heard from heaven declaring him

his Son, in A. D. 27, thirteen years before.

According to this calculation, the midst of the

last or seventieth week, which is marked by

the crucifixion, is placed in A. D. 44, but the

crucifixion took place in A. D. 31, thirteen

years previous. And lastly, the seventy weeks,

or 490 years, dating from the twentieth of

Artaxerxes, extend to A. D. 47, with absolutely

nothing to mark their termination. Hence if

that be the year, and the grant to Nehemiah

the event, from which to reckon, the prophecy

has proved a failure. As it is, it only proves that