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cnars'r's sncozm counts 81Then comes the instruction of Gabriel, which we havebefhre given.lll. The time or length ofthe anion-the 2,300 days.What must we understand by days? In the prophecyof' Daniel it is invariably to be reckoned years; ibr Godhath so ordered the prophets to reckon days. Numb.xiv. 34,"Alter the number of days in which yo searchedthe land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall youbear your iniquities, evenforty years." Ezek. iv. 5, 6, " ForI have laid upon thee the(years of their iniquity, accordingto the number of the ays, three hundred aml ninetydays;so shalt thou hear the iniquity of the house of lsrael.And when thou hast accomplished them, lie againonthy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of thehouse ol' Judah forty days; l have appointed theo eachday for a year." ln these passages we prove the commandof God. We will also show that it was so calledin the days of Jacob, when hc served lor Rachel, Gen.xxix. 27: "Fulfil her week (seven days)and we will givethee this also, ibr the service which thou shalt serve withmvet other seven years."othingnow remains to make it certain that our visionis to be sounderstood, but to that Daniel hasfollowed this rule. This we wilprove do, if your patiencewill hold out, and God permit.Now turn your attention to the- ninth chapter of Daniel,and you will there learn that fifteen years after Danielhad his last vision, and sixty-five years alter Danielexplained Nebuchadnez1.ar's dream, and 538 ears B. C.,Daniel set his face unto the Lord God by supplication andprayer; and by confession of his own sins, and the sinsof the people of Israel, he sought God for mercy, for himselfand all Israel. And while he wasspeaking andpraying, as he tells us, Daniel ix. 21, " Yea, while I wasspeaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I hadseen in the vision at thebeginning, Daniel viii. 16, 17,being caused to ily swiftly, touche me about the timeof the evening oblation. And he informed me and talkedwith me, and said, O Daniel, 1 am now come forth to givethee skill and understanding. At the beginning of thysupplication the commandment came forth, and I am