Second advent library

~_LECTURE IILI!DANIEL vlli. lil, H.Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto thatfcrlnin saint which spake, How long shall he the vision fu||t'0ru~ing the daily sncrilice, and lhe transgression nl' demlntiun. togive hnth the sanctuary and the host to be lmdden nude-r limi 1And he said uutomc, Uulo two thousand three liunulreml dnvstthen shall the sanctuary be cle:msed;" orjustiiied, as it mighthare been translated.Tm: henrer will, at the lirst view ofour text, perceivethat there is something very important communicated inthequestion and answer given; or whyure saints commissioned(as we ma reasonably suppose) from thecourts ol' heaven, to ash and answer the question containedin the text, in presence of t.he pmphct? Andthat it concerned Daniel, and us for whom the prophetwrote his prophecy, to understand, is evident from the unswerbeing given to Daniel -" and he said unto me"-instead of being given to the " saint," who made the inquiry.'1`hen we are not treading on forbidden groundmy dear hearer, to search to understand the meaning andtruth of oursubject.I shall then treat oursubject in the following manner:I. Explain some oi' the figures and egpressions usedin the text.II. Show what the " daily sacrifice vision" is, and,IIL The time or length of the vision " unto two thousandthree hundred days: then shall the sanctuary hocleansed."I. I am to explain some of the figures used in thotext; and,