1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

LECTURE 111.
DANIEL viii. 13,14.
"Then I heard one saint speaking, and another samt raid ~mto U
certain saint which S~ake. How lone shall be Ihe vision concerning
the daily sacri6&, &d the tr&@on of desolation, to
.ve botb the sanctuary and the host to be trodden ander foot
%d he said unto me .Unto two thoruand three hundred &ys:
&en shall the sane& be cleansed ;" or justified, as it rmght
have been dated
THI hearer will, at the 6ret view of our text, perceive
that there is eomething v y important communicated in
the question and answer even; or why are saints commissioned
(as we ma reasonably suppose) from the
courts of heaven, to asg and answer the question contained
in the text, in presence of the prophet And
that it concerned Daniel, and nu for whom the prophet
wrote his prophecy, to understand, is evident from the en-
ewer bein given to Daniel - u and he eaid unto me" -
inatead of%eing given to the U lint," who made the in-
Then we are not treading on forbidden porn
quiT my ear hearer, to search to understand the meanmg an i
truth of our subject.
I shall then treat our subject in the fdlowing manner:
I. Explain some of the 6gures - and expressions used
in the t6xt
11. Show what the udaily eacrifice visionn is, and,
IK The time or length of the vieion a unto two thousand
three hundred days: then shall the eanctuav be
cleansed"
L I am to explain eome of the figures used in the
text; and,