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

patly dlsappinted if they &mfd deny my premise&
Why would they do &as " my you. I answer, Forthe
same reason that the lawyer hesitated, when he learned
that it was his bull that gomd the fanner's ox.
LL But might we not unhtamd the seventy weeb to be
ao man lhl. weeh, that is, 490 mmmotl days" say
you. answer, If a, then tIre command m build Jemsalem
must have been given only a year and a thud
before C%rist's death; and it would have been very
improper for Gabriel to have said, "Unto the Meesiah,
the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and
two weeks," when he had already come, and had been
reaching more than two yearn before the weeks began.
KO, my fiends; every reasonable conhoversialist must
acknowledge there is no pbible wa to et rid of
our conclusion but to deny that dost b.toly, and
Messiah, meam Christ, in our text and context And
I pity, and leave thk man in tJ~e hands of him who
knows all hearts, that is forced on to ground so nntenable
as this.
If I have got a right understanding of the seventy
weeks, that a day Rtands for a year, - and I have never
been able to find a Christian expitor who disagreee
with me on this point, either modern or ancient, - then
the conclueion is, as far as I can w, unavoidable, that
the vision of Daniel is 2300 years long, and that the
490 yeam before Christ's death is not only the key to
unlock the commencing of the vision, but rrhows conclusively
how and when, and ma~er
and time, the kingdoms
of this world will be broken to pieces and camed
away, and no place found for them, by the stone which
will become a pat mountain aad fdl the whole earth.
For the seventy weeks must seal up the vision and
make the prophecy of Daniel true. Then, if 2300 days
is the length of the vision, and 480 da s of that vision
were fuhilled in 490 years ending wiJ Chriat7s death,
so muet 1810 days end the vision, which, upon precisely
the same mle, will be faldlled in 1810 years after
Christ's death, or in 1843 aft& his birth, which ie the
mahe thing.
But, my eome, Daniel did not underetPod the vision
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