Page 9 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
discriminate in favor of himself. No self-

righteousness appears in his petition. And

although he had suffered long for others’ sins,

enduring seventy years of captivity for the

wrongs of his people, himself meanwhile

living a godly life, and receiving signal honors

and blessings from the Lord, he brings no

accusations against any one to the exclusion of

others, pleads no sympathy for himself as a

victim of others’ wrongs, but ranks himself in

with the rest, and says, We have sinned, and

unto us belongs confusion of face. And he

acknowledges that they had not heeded the

lessons God designed to teach them by their

afflictions, by turning again unto him.

An expression in the 14th verse is worthy of

especial notice: “Therefore hath the Lord

watched upon the evil, and brought it upon