Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

matter of prophecy, and were fulfilled in
accordance with the predictions.
“When, therefore, I found the 2300 prophetic
days, which were to mark the length of the vision
from the Persian to the end of the fourth kingdom,
the seven times’ continuance of the dispersion of
God’s people, and the 1335 prophetic days to the
standing of Daniel in his lot, all evidently
extending to the advent, with other prophetical
periods, I could but regard them as ‘the times
before appointed,’ which God had revealed ‘unto
his servants the prophets.’ As I was fully convinced
that ‘all Scripture given by inspiration of God is
profitable,’ -- that it came not at any time by the
will of man, but was written as holy men were
moved by the Holy Ghost, and was written for our
learning, that we, through patience and comfort of
the Scriptures, might have hope, -- I could but
regard the chronological portions of the Bible as
being as much a portion of the word of God, and as
much entitled to our serious consideration, as any
other portion of the Scriptures.
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