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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
commenced in 457 B. C. and ended in A. D.

1844, provided the number is right, and

twenty-three hundred is the correct reading.

With this point established, there would seem

to be no room for further controversy. On this

point Dr. Hales remarks: —

“There is no number in the Bible whose

genuineness is better ascertained than that of

the 2300 days. It is found in all the printed

Hebrew editions, in all the MSS. of Kennicott

and De Rossi’s collations, and in all the ancient

versions, except the Vatican copy of the

Septuagint, which reads 2400, followed by

Symmachus; and some copies noticed by

Jerome, 2200, both evidently literal errors in

excess and defect, which compensate each

other and confirm the mean, 2300.” —

Chronology, Vol. II, p. 512.