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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
Dr. Barnes, in his notes on this passage, and

particularly on the words “most holy,” says:

“The phrase properly means ‘holy of holies,’ or

most holy; it is applied often in the Scriptures

to the inner sanctuary, or the portion of the

tabernacle and temple containing the ark of

the covenant, the two tables of stone, etc.” “It

is not necessarily limited to the inner

sanctuary of the temple, but may be applied to

the whole house.” “Others have supposed that

this refers to the Messiah himself, and that the

meaning is that he who was most holy would

then be consecrated, or anointed, as the

Messiah. It is probable, as Hengstenberg

(Christology, II, 321, 322) has shown, that the

Greek translators thus understood it, but it is

a sufficient objection to this that the phrase,

though occurring many times in the

Scriptures, is never applied to persons, unless