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_cna1s'r's sxcosn comm. 73greatly disappointed if they should deny my premises."'Vhy would they do thus ?" say you. l answer, l-'or thesame reason that the lawyer hesitated, when he learnedthat it was his bull that the f2mner's dx."But might gored we not un erstand the seventy weeksto beso many literal weeks, that is, 490 commondays?" sayyou. I answer, If so, then the command to build Jerasalemmust have been given only a yearand a thirdbefore Christ's death; and it would have been veryimproper ibr Gabriel to have said,"Unto the þÿ h I ¬ 9 S l d l ,the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore andtwo weeks," when he had already come, and had beenreachin more than two years before the weeks began.go, my éieuds; every reasonable controversialist mustacknowledge there is no possible way to rid ofour conclusion but to deny it that Most oly, andMessiah, means Christ, in our text and context. AndI pity, and leave the man in the hands of him whoknows all hearts, that is forced on to groundso untenableas this.If I have got aright understanding of the seventyweeks, that a day stands for a yea.r,- and I have neverbeen able to find a Christian expositor who disagreeswith me on this point, either modern or ancient,--thenthe conclusion is, as far as I can see, unavoidable, thatthe vision of Daniel is 2300 years long, and that the490 years before Christ's death is not only the key tounlock the commencing of the vision, but shows conclusivelyhow and when, and manner and time, the kingdomsoand carriedthis world will ~be broken to piecesaway, and no place found for them, by the stone whichwill become agreat mountain and fill the whole earth.For the seventy weeks must seal up the vision andmake the of Daniel true. Then, if 2300 daysis the prophecdy;length of e vision, and 490 da s of that visionwere fulfi ed in 490 years ending with Christ's death,lo must 1810 days end the vision, which, upon preciselythe same rule, will be fulfilled in 1810 years afterChrisfs death, or in 1843 alter his birth, which is thelame thing.did not understand the viamnBut, sayson;e,."Daniel