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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
which would denote the same number of

literal years. From the reading of the text,

some have inferred (though the inference is

not a necessary one) that this period begins

with the setting up of the abomination of

desolation, or the papal power, in 538, and

consequently extends to 1828 But while we

find nothing in the latter year to mark its

termination, we do find evidence in the

margin that it begins before the setting up of

the papal abomination. The margin reads, “To

set up the abomination,” etc. With this reading

the text would stand thus: “And from the time

that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away to

set up [or in order to set up] the abomination

that maketh desolate, there shall be a

thousand two hundred and ninety days.” The

daily has already been shown to be, not the

daily sacrifice of the Jews, but the daily or