Page 64 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
turned to the Gentiles harmonizes with that

date better than any other which has been

named. And the crucifixion in A. D. 31, in the

midst of the last week, is sustained by a mass

of testimony which cannot be easily

invalidated.” — Advent Herald.

From the facts above set forth, we see that,

reckoning the seventy weeks from the decree

given to Ezra in the seventh of Artaxerxes, B.

C. 457, there is the most perfect harmony

throughout. The important and definite

events of the manifestation of the Messiah at

his baptism, the commencement of his public

ministry, the crucifixion, and the turning away

from the Jews to the Gentiles, with the

proclamation of the new covenant, all come in

in their exact place, and like a bright galaxy of