Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

Dr. Jarvis, Mr. Hinton, Mr. Shimeal, and Prof.
Bush, sustained Mr. Miller respecting the
significance of the prophetic days.
In speaking of the application of the 2300 days
to the time of the persecution of Antiochus
Epiphanes, Dr. Jarvis says:
“This interpretation would, of course, be fatal
to all Mr. Miller’s calculations. It is not surprising,
therefore, that it should be eagerly embraced by
many of his opponents. But, with all due deference,
I think there are insuperable difficulties in the way
of this scheme, which makes Antiochus Epiphanes
the little horn.”
“I make no difficulty, therefore, in admitting
the evening-morning to mean a prophetic day.”[22]
He further says that Daniel was told to shut up
the vision, “because the fulfillment of it should be
so far distant; a strong collateral argument, as I
understand it, for the interpretation of 2300
prophetic days.”[23] And “The vision is the whole
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