Dan.9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,
to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most Holy.
(CB) from the going forth, &c.: i.e. in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (= the great king: i.e. Astyages), 454 B.C.
(CB) commandment = word. Hebrew dabar. Referring to the Divine word rather than to a royal decree.
(CB) Jerusalem. Not the Temple (as in Ezra), but the city (as in Nehemiah), which was the subject of Daniel’s prayer, and therefore the answer to it.
Messiah the Prince is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. NOTE: the upper case “P” of Prince.
(CB) seven weeks = forty-nine years (454-405 B.C.).
(CB) threescore and two weeks = 434 years (405 B.C. – A.D. 29) : the two together being 49 + 434 = 483 years; leaving seven years to make up the full 490 years of Dan.9:24.
(GPD) page 77 : Archaeological findings have recently established September 29, 2 B.C. as the birth of Christ and April 3, A.D. 33 as the precise day of His Crucifixion. The base length of 30.043 Pyramid inches converted to years and projected on the slope of the Ascending Passage marks October 14, A.D. 29 which is the date of His baptism, exactly 3 ½ years before His death on Calvary.
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