Second advent library

ll suns.: ru.»some to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved; thereforeunderstand the matter, and consider the |7fl1b1§Sevsng weeks are determined upon thy people, andupon y holy tocity,finish the transgression, and tomake an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for ini~quity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and toseal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the MostHoly. Know, therefore, and understand, that from thegoing forth of the commandment to restore and builderuealem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be sevenweeks, and threescore and two weeks; the street shallbe built again, and the wall, even in troublous times,.And alter threescore and two weeks shall Messiah beout oil; but not for himself; and the people ofthe Princethat shall come shall destroy the city and theand the end thereof shall be with a Hood, andsanctuag;unto aend of the war desolations are determined. And he shallconfirm the covenant with many for one week; and inthe midst of the weelr,(or last half; as it havebeen rendered,) he shall cause the sacriiice might an the ob~lation to cease, and for the overspresding of abomination,he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation,and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."What do we learn from the above passage? Welearn ourduty in prayer, and God's goodness in answering.We learn that the angel Gabriel was sent toinstruct Daniel, and make him understand thc vinbn.You may inquire what vision? I answer, The one Danielhad in the beginning, for he has had no other. Wealso learn that seventy weeks, which is 490 days, (oryears, as we shall show,)from the going forth of a certaindecree to build the streets and walls of Jerusalem introubloustimes,to the crucifixion ofthe Messiah shouldbe accemphshed. We also learn that this seventyweeks is divided into three parts; seven weeks beingemployed in building the streets and walls in troubloustimes, which is forty-nine years, sixt -two weeks, orfour hundred and thirty»four years to the preaching ofJohn in the wildemess, which two, ut together, makesixty-nine weeks, or four hundred) and eighty-threerun. and one week the aww was prewheda John