Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

seventy literal weeks. And Prof. Stuart said:
“It would require a volume of considerable
magnitude even to give a history of the evervarying
and contradictory opinions of critics
respecting this locus vexatissimus; and perhaps a
still larger, to establish an exegesis which would
stand. I am fully of opinion that no interpretation as
yet published will stand the test of thorough
grammaticohistorical criticism.”[34]
Mr. Shimeal, while he admitted that they are
weeks of years, commenced them four years later
than Mr. M.
Dr. Hamilton sustained Mr. Miller on this
point. He said:
“The interpretation which Mr. Miller gives of
Daniel’s seventy weeks, commencing with the
decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus, in the seventh
year of his reign (B. C. 457), for the rebuilding of
Jerusalem, and terminating with the death of
Christ, A. D. 33, is, in the main, correct, because
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