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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
and Darius and Artaxerxes,” showing that

they are all reckoned as a unit, the different

decrees being but the successive steps by

which the work was accomplished. And this

decree could not be said to have “gone forth,”

as intended by the prophecy, till the last

permission which the prophecy required was

embodied in the decree, and clothed with the

authority of the empire. This point was

reached in the grant given to Ezra, but not

before. Here the decree assumed the

proportions, and covered the ground,

demanded by the prophecy, and from this

point its “going forth” must be dated.

With the seventy weeks we are now done; but

there remain a longer period and other

important events to be considered. The

seventy weeks are but the first 490 years of