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29970
 [1] {Seventy weeks}  [1] {make reconciliation}

   These are "weeks" or more accurately, sevens of years; seventy weeks of
   seven years each.  Within these "weeks" the national chastisement must be
   ended and the nation re-established in everlasting righteousness (v. 24).
   The seventy weeks are divided into seven == 49 years; sixty-two = 434
   years; one = 7 years (vs. 25-27).  In the seven weeks == 49 years,
   Jerusalem was to be rebuilt in "troublous times."  This was fulfilled, as
   Ezra and Nehemiah record.  Sixty-two weeks == 434 years, thereafter
   Messiah was to come (v. 25).  This was fulfilled in the birth and
   manifestation of Christ.  Verse 26 is obviously an indeterminate period.
   The date of the crucifixion is not fixed.  It is only said to be "after"
   the threescore and two weeks.  It is the first event in verse 26.  The
   second event is the destruction of the city, fulfilled A.D. 70.  Then,
   "unto the end," a period not fixed, but which has already lasted nearly
   2000 years.  To Daniel was revealed only that wars and desolations should
   continue (cf.
 # Mt 24:6-14
   The N.T. reveals, that which was hidden from the O.T. prophets
 # Mt 13:11-17 Eph 3:1-10
   that during this period should be accomplished the mysteries of the
   kingdom of Heaven
 # Mt 13:1-50
   and the out-calling of the Church
 # Mt 16:18 Ro 11:25
   When the Church-age will end, and the seventieth week begin, is nowhere
   revealed.  Its duration can be but seven years.  To make it more violates
   the principle of interpretation already confirmed by fulfilment.  Verse
   27 deals with the last week.  The "he" of verse 27 is the "prince that
   shall come" of verse 26, whose people (Rome) destroyed the temple, A.D.
   70.  He is the same with the "little horn" of chapter 7.  He will
   covenant with the Jews to restore their temple sacrifices for one week
   (seven years), but in the middle of that time he will break the covenant
   and fulfil
 # Da 12:11 2Th 2:3,4
   Between the sixty-ninth week, after which Messiah was cut off, and
   the seventieth week, within which the "little horn" of Dan. 7. will run
   his awful course, intervenes this entire Church-age.  Verse 27 deals
   with the last three and a half years of the seven, which are identical
   with the "great tribulation."
 # Mt 24:15-28
   "time of trouble"
 # Da 12:1
   hour of temptation"
 # Re 3:10
   (see "Tribulation,"
 # Ps 2:5 Re 7:14

 [1] {reconciliation}

   There is no word in the O.T. properly rendered \\reconcile.\\  In the
   A.V. the English word is found
 # 1Sa29:4 2Ch 29:24 Le 6:30 8:15 16:20 Eze 45:15,17,20 Da 9:24
   but always improperly; atonement is invariably the meaning.
   Reconciliation is a N.T. doctrine
 # Ro 5:10
 » See Note "Col 1:21"
29971
 [2] {from the going forth of the commandment}

   Three decrees concerning Jerusalem are recorded, that of Cyrus, B.C. 536
   (Ussher), for the restoration of the "house of the Lord God of Israel"
 # 2Ch 36:22,23 Ezr 1:1-3
   that of Darius
 # Eze 6:3-8
   B.C. 521-486), and that of Artaxerxes in his seventh year.
 # Eze 7:7
   say, B.C. 458). Artaxerxes in his twentieth year, B.C. 444 (Hales,
   Jahn), 446 (A.V.), 454 (Ussher, Hengstenberg), gave permission for
   the rebuilding of the "city," i.e., "Jerusalem"
 # Ne 2:1-8
   The latter decree is, obviously, that from which the
   "seven weeks" (49 years) run, unless by "the commandment
   to restore," etc. is meant the \\divine\\ decree
 # Da 9:23
   In the present state of biblical chronology the date of the decree
   of Artaxerxes  cannot be unanswerably fixed farther than to say that
   it was issued  between 454 and 444 B.C.  In either case we are brought
   to the time of Christ.  Prophetic time is invariably so near as to
   give full warning, so indeterminate as to give no satisfaction to mere
   curiosity. (cf)
 # Mt 24:36 Ac 1:7
   The 434 years reckon, of course, from the end of the
   seven weeks so that the whole time from "the going forth of the
   commandment to restore," etc., "unto the Messiah" is sixty-nine weeks of
   years, or 483 years.
29973
 [3] {abominations}

   (Cf)
 # Mt 24:15
   The expression occurs three times in Daniel.  In
 # Da 9:27 12:11
   the reference is to the "Beast," "man of sin";
 # 2Th 2:3,4
   and is identical with
 # Mt 24:15
   In
 # Da 11:31
   the reference is to the act of Antiochus Epiphanes, the prototype of
   the man of sin, who sacrificed a sow upon the altar, and entered the
   holy of holies.
29996
 [1] {Behold}

   The spirit of prophecy here returns to that which more immediately
   concerned Daniel and his royal masters--the near future of the empire in
   which he was so great a personage.  Four kings were yet to follow in
   Media-Persia.  Then will come Alexander the "mighty king" of Grecia
   (v.3).  The division of Alexander's empire into four parts (v.4) as
   already predicted
 # Da 8:22
   is foretold.  The troublous course of affairs in two parts of the
   disintegrated Alexandrian empire, Syria and Egypt, is then traced
   down to verse 20.  Here Antiochus Epiphanes, the  "little horn" of
   Chapter 8., occupies the vision down to verse 36.
   His pollution of the sanctuary is again mentioned.  (Cf)
 » See Note "Da 8:9"
   From verse 36 the interpretation is of the final "little horn"
 # Da 7:8,24-26
 » See Note "Da 11:35"