Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

the first standing as to learning and research, and
several versions have thus rendered the word.[39]
Such being the meaning of the word, and such
the circumstances under which the prophecy of the
seventy weeks was given, Mr. Miller claimed that
the vision which Daniel was called on to consider,
and respecting which Gabriel was to give him skill
and understanding, was the vision of the 8th
chapter; of which Daniel sought the meaning,
which Gabriel was commanded to make him
understand, but which, after Gabriel’s explanation,
none understood; and that the seventy weeks of
years -- i.e., four hundred and ninety that were cut
off -- were cut off from the 2300 days of that
vision; and, consequently, that those two periods
must be dated from the same epoch, and the longer
extend 1810 years after the termination of the
shorter.
The same view was advocated by several
English divines. Rev. M. Habershon says:
“In this conclusion I am happy in agreeing with
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