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LECTURE VII.,iiiDANIEL xii. 8.And I heard, but I understood not: then said I 0 my Lord,what shall be the end of these thmgslPnsvrous to Danicl's asking the question containedin our text, he had been tau ht., as we have seen in ourformer lecture, not only the iistory of future events asthey would succeed each other down to the end of theworld, but he had the regular order of time speci-Hed in the duration of the little horn, " time, times, amd ahalf/Q" as in Daniel vii. 25, and xii. 7. But he had beenin ormed of many events which shouldUBIIBXIYG afterhis "tim¢, times, and a halg" should be iinishe andnot,having the length of the agan beast., or daily abomination,given to him at all, he could not tell or understandwhereabouts in his grand number of 2300 days, 111°end of the civil power of the little horn, or Papal Rome,carried him: there was no rule `ven Daniel yet bywhich he could tell when or how Icing after the cruci-Sxion of the Messiah before the daily sacrifice abominationwould he taken out of the way, and the power ofthe little horn be established, and the abomination ofdesolation set. up. Be sure, Daniel had heard the wholehisto? down to the resurrection, and had the whole visionspeci ed in his 2300 days. But as he saw there wereevidently three divisions of the time after the crucifixionor cutting od' of the Messiah at the fulfilmentof his490 years,or 70 weeks, down to the end of his 1810years, which would he the remainder of his total numberof 2300 years,-alter his 70 weeks should be fixliilled