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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
the 2300. Take 490 from 2300, and there

remain 1810. The 490, as we have seen, ended

in the autumn of A. D. 34. If to this date we now

add the remaining 1810 years, we shall have

the termination of the whole period. Thus, to

A. D. 34, autumn, add 1810, and we have the

autumn of A. D. 1844. Thus speedily and

surely do we find the termination of the 2300

days, when once the seventy weeks have been

located.

One other point should here be noticed. We

have seen that the seventy weeks are the first

490 days of the 2300; that these days are

prophetic, signifying literal years, according

to the Bible rule, a day for a year (Numbers

14:34; Ezekiel 4:6), as is proved by the

fulfillment of the seventy weeks, and as all

reliable expositors agree; that they