The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

527THE LATIN ORIGINAL IS IN THE CODEX JUSTINIANI (CODEX OFJUSTINIAN), LIB. 3, TITLE 12, LEX. 3. THE LAW IS GIVEN IN LATINAND IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN PHILIP SCHAFF'S HISTORY OFTHE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, VOL. 3, 3D PERIOD, CH. 7, SEC. 75, P.380, FOOTNOTE 1; AND IN JAMES A. HESSEY'S BAMPTONLECTURES, SUNDAY, LECTURE 3, PAR. 1, 3D ED., MURRAY'SPRINTING OF 1866, P. 58. SEE DISCUSSION IN SCHAFF, AS ABOVEREFERRED TO; IN ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, A MANUAL OFCHURCH HISTORY (PHILADELPHIA: THE AMERICAN BAPTISTPUBLICATION SOCIETY, PRINTING OF 1933), REV. ED., VOL. 1, PP.305-307; AND IN LEROY E. FROOM, THE PROPHETIC FAITH OFOUR FATHERS (WASHINGTON, D.C.: REVIEW AND HERALDPUBLISHING ASSN., 1950), VOL. 1, PP 376-381.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 54. PROPHETIC DATES.--AN IMPORTANTPRINCIPLE IN PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION IN CONNECTIONWITH TIME PROPHECIES IS THE YEAR-DAY PRINCIPLE, UNDERWHICH A DAY OF PROPHETIC TIME IS COUNTED AS ACALENDAR YEAR OF HISTORIC TIME. BEFORE THE ISRAELITESENTERED THE LAND OF CANAAN THEY SENT TWELVE SPIESAHEAD TO INVESTIGATE. THE SPIES WERE GONE FORTY DAYS,AND UPON THEIR RETURN THE HEBREWS, FRIGHTENED ATTHEIR REPORT, REFUSED TO GO UP AND OCCUPY THEPROMISED LAND. THE RESULT WAS A SENTENCE THE LORDPASSED UPON THEM: "AFTER THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS INWHICH YE SEARCHED THE LAND, EVEN FORTY DAYS, EACHDAY FOR A YEAR, SHALL YE BEAR YOUR INIQUITIES, EVENFORTY YEARS." NUMBERS 14:34. A SIMILAR METHOD OFCOMPUTING FUTURE TIME IS INDICATED THROUGH THEPROPHET EZEKIEL. FORTY YEARS OF PUNISHMENT FORINIQUITIES AWAITED THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH. THE LORD SAIDTHROUGH THE PROPHET: "LIE AGAIN ON THY RIGHT SIDE, ANDTHOU SHALT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAHFORTY DAYS: I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY FOR AYEAR." EZEKIEL 4:6. THIS YEAR-DAY PRINCIPLE HAS ANIMPORTANT APPLICATION IN INTERPRETING THE TIME OF THEPROPHECY OF THE "TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDREDEVENINGS AND MORNINGS" (DANIEL 8:14, R.V.) AND THE 1260-DAY PERIOD, VARIOUSLY INDICATED AS "A TIME AND TIMES