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9:19. O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken, and do: delay not, for
thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and
upon thy people.
9:20. Now while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins,
and the sins of my people of Israel, and presenting my supplications in
the sight of my God, for the holy mountain of my God:
9:21. As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man, Gabriel, whom I
had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me at
the time of the evening sacrifice.
The man Gabriel... The angel Gabriel in the shape of a man.
9:22. And he instructed me, and spoke to me, and said: O Daniel, I am
now come forth to teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.
9:23. From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth: and I am
come to shew it to thee, because thou art a man of desires: therefore,
do thou mark the word, and understand the vision.
Man of desires... that is, ardently praying for the Jews then in
captivity.
9:24. Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy
city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and
iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and
vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be
anointed.
Seventy weeks... Viz., of years, (or seventy times seven, that is, 490
years,) are shortened; that is, fixed and determined, so that the time
shall be no longer.
9:25. Know thou, therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth
of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there
shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built
again, and the walls, in straitness of times.
From the going forth of the word, etc... That is, from the twentieth
year of king Artaxerxes, when by his commandment Nehemias rebuilt the
walls of Jerusalem, 2 Esd. 2. From which time, according to the best
chronology, there were just sixty-nine weeks of years, that is, 483
years to the baptism of Christ, when he first began to preach and
execute the office of Messias.-Ibid. In straitness of times... angustia
temporum: which may allude both to the difficulties and opposition they
met with in building: and to the shortness of the time in which they
finished the wall, viz., fifty-two days.
9:26. And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people
that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader,
that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end
thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed
desolation.
A people with their leader... The Romans under Titus.
9:27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in
the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there
shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation
shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.
In the half of the week... or, in the middle of the week, etc. Because
Christ preached three years and a half: and then by his sacrifice upon
the cross abolished all the sacrifices of the law.-Ibid. The abomination
of desolation... Some understand this of the profanation of the temple
by the crimes of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots.
Others of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standard of the pagan
Romans. Others, in fine, distinguish three different times of
desolation: viz., that under Antiochus; that when the temple was
destroyed by the Romans; and the last near the end of the world under
Antichrist. To all which, as they suppose, this prophecy may have a
relation.
Daniel Chapter 10
Daniel having humbled himself by fasting and penance seeth a vision,
with which he is much terrified; but he is comforted by an angel.
10:1. In the third year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, a word was
revealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltassar, and a true word, and great
strength: and he understood the word: for there is need of understanding
in a vision.
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