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csaxs'r's noon course. G5lggal sacrifices from the daysvii. 27, " Who needeth not daily, as thoseto offerhigh'-priests, eu forof all theofAhel tothedays of the essiab. Let us hear what Paul says, Heb.up sacrifice, iirst for his own sins, anthe peep e's; for this he did mme when he ofered upSee also Heb. x. 11, 12 "And every priest standethdaily ministering, and otfering oftentimes the same sacrifices,which can never take away sins; but this man,atter he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever satdown on the right hand of God." Many moremight passagesbe brought to show that all sacrifices and ob a-tions which could take away sin, or in which God theFather could be well pleased, ceased in Christ's onesacrifice and oblation. But I have given enough to satisfyevery candid, ungrejudiced mind; therefore I shall,I. Try to prove w en the seventy weeks began, andwhen they ended.The angel Gabriel tells Daniel, ix. 25, "Know, therefore,and understand, that,fi'om the forth of thecommandment to restore and to bmgoing d Jerusalem, untothe Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescoreand two weeks; the street shall be built again,and the wall, even in troublous times."In this pamagewe have aplain declaration when theseventy weeks "began: from the going forth of thecommandment." But what commandment? we mayinquire. I answer, A command that will finally restorethe Jews from theirczptivity under which they thenwere held in bondage;so to prepare the way for themto rebuild their city, repeo le the same, and raise upthe decayed walls, settle the streets, and cleanse theeity ot`Jerusalem; and these things would be done introublous times. So much isexiiressed or implied inthe declaration of Gabriel, which have just quoted.Who would give the command? is the next question.I answer, It must be a king who had powerover theJews to release and restore them. It must of necessitybe akingover the Medea and Persians, or it would notbe in agreement with the vision in the Sth chaiter ofDsnielfrfor he is expressly told by Gabriel that e6 " .ram-'