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

eign of Cyq king of Persia. Thia was the same
C rua who was general and eon-in-law to Darius the
dede, that conquered Babylon. Besides whom there
should be yet three kings," which three kings were
Artaxerxes, Dariug and Ahasue~s, as they are named
in Scri ture. See Em, iv. v. and vi. cha tern I am
arare %t history haa named four where &cripturo has
only named three. History -names, 1, Cambysea ; 2,
Smerdis, same as Artaserxes above named in Scripture ;
3, Darius, son of Hystaspes, same aa above ; 4, Xerxes,
same as Scripture calls Ahaauerus. Why the Scripture
did not name Cambyaes, if there was such a king, I am
not able to ten, unless his reign was so short (which all
historians a ree in) that he had no hand in building or
aindering d e bullding ' of the temple at Jerusalem, se
the other three kings had, which Ezra has named. But
as Gabriel did not come to tell Daniel any thing which
was not noted in the Scripture of truth," (eee Daniel
x. 21, L'But I will show thee that which is noted m the
Scripture of truth,") therefore the langua of our
text now under examination will be thia- UEere shall .
atand up yet three kinga in Persia, (noted in the Scripture
of truth,) and the fourth ahall be far richer than they
all," &c. This fourth king was Artaxerxes Longimanus,
and is the same king noted in Ezra vii., and the first and
only king of Persia noted in the Scriptures," who ever
gave a decree to rebuild the walls and streets of Jerusalem,
especially in troublous timea We may therefore
reaeonably and conclusively determine that the measenger
Gabriel begins his instruction with this king's
reign, the 5th king noted in Scripture. And if so, we
have another strong and forcible evidence that Daniel's
vision of the ram and he-goat began with the seventy
weeka, 457 years before the birth of Christ, and 490
yew, or 70 prophetic weeks, before his death, Dan. xi.
3,4. We have the plain history of Alexander, the conueror
of the world, his death, and division of the king-
!om into four great empires Hear what Gabriel says
of him more than 200 years before the event happened,
and learn, ye skeptics, the evidence that this prophecy
is of divine origin And a mighty king shall shrsd up