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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
and the laws, just mentioned. How long a

time were they to be given into the hands of

this power? A time, as we have seen from

chapter 4:23, is one year; two times, the least

that could be denoted by the plural, two years,

and the dividing of time, or half a time (Sept.,

ῆμισυ,) half a year. Gesenius also gives “ גַלָפ ,

Chald., a half. Daniel 7:25.” We thus have three

years and a half for the continuance of this

power. The Hebrew, or rather the Chaldaic,

word for time in the text before us, is ןָד ִע iddân,

which Gesenius defines thus: “Time. Spec, in

prophetic language for a year. Daniel 7:25, ־דַע

ןדע ָָּֽ ִ גַלפוּ ְ ןיִנָדעו ִ ְ ןָד ִע for a year, also two years, and

half a year; i. e., for three years and a half;

comp. Jos. B. J. 1. 1. 1.” We must now consider

that we are in the midst of symbolic prophecy;

hence in this measurement the time is not

literal, but symbolic also. The inquiry then