2. The seven weeks reach to the completion of the rebuilding of the figurative holy city, which must have taken place about A. P. J. 4305, p. 327. (1.) The first objection against this arrangement answered. p. 332. (2.) The second objection answered. p. 333. (3.) The third objection answered. p. 336, 3. In what manner the rebuilding of the holy city was to be carried on with perpetual increase and firm decision. p. 339. III. A discussion of the third clause, contained in the former part of Ver. 26. Messiah's divorce of the Levitical church after the expiration of the sixty nine weeks. p. 340. IV, A discussion of the fourth clause, contained in the latter part of Ver. 26. P. 348. 1. The corruption of the people was the cause of Messiah's divorcing the Levitical church. p. 348. 2. The punishment of the people for their corruption. p. 353, 3. In what manner there were desolations to the end of the war. 353. (1.) The miseries experienced by Jerusalem. p. 353. (2.) The miseries experienced by Judea. p. 357. 4. How the war was firmly decided upon. p. 360. V. A discussion of the fifth clause, contained in the former part of Ver. 27. The making of the new covenant during one week, and the disannulling of the old one. P. 364. VI. A discussion of the sixth clause, contained in the latter part of Ver, 27. p. 373. 1. The abolition of the daily sacrifice in half a week, p. 373. (1.) Dr. Prideaux's great error is the supposing this half week to be the half of the seventieth week. p. 373. 1 (2.) It . (2.) It is the three years and a half that elasped before the abolition of the Levitical sacrifices towards the close of the siege of Jerusalem. p. 376. 2. The Messiah caused them to cease by the instrumentality of the Roman arms. p. 379. 3. Yet it is foretold in this last clause of the prophecy, that the Romans themselves are in their turn destined to destruction, and that the Jewish sacrifices shall be restored in a spiritual manner, at the expiration of the great period of 1260 years. p. 379. (1) This interpretation is necessary for various reasons. A. How the end poured upon the desolator is firmly decided upon. p. 394. VII. An explanatory paraphrase of the whole prophecy. p. 395. 1. Paraphrase of the first clause. p. 395. CHAP. VII. An examination of the objections which may be made to the preceding interpretation. I. THE first objection to the mystic interpretation of Jerusalem. p. 400. I 1. The first answer to it. p. 401. 2. The second answer to it. p. 402. (1.) The first corollary to the second answer. p. 403. (2.) The second corollary. p. 404. II. The second objection to the divorce taking place before the times of the holy city had fully expired. The reply to it. p. 406. III. The third objection to the deficiency of proof that the rebuilding of the figurative holy city was completed at the end of the seven weeks. The reply to it. p. 408. IV. The fourth objection to the referring the last week of the seventy to the period of the ministration of the Gospel, on the ground of its being interposed in the midst of matters relative to the Jewish war. The reply to it. p. 413. V. The fifth objection to the half week being considered as no part of the seventieth week. The reply to it. p. 416. VI. The sixth objection to the computation of the seventy weeks by solar years. The reply to it. p. 419. CHAP. VIII. Observations by way of conclusion. 1. An accomplished prophecy is not necessarily so clear as to be understood without labour or mental exertion. p. 422. 2. An addres to the Jews. p. 424. 3. An address to Christians. p. 427. 1 APPENDIX. APPENDIX. No. I. The astronomical canon of Ptolemy arranged synchronically with the kings of Judah and Assyria, the high-priests of Judah, the Greek kings of Syria, and the princes and kings of Judèa. p. 430. No. II. Succession of the kings of Judah, the high-priests of Judah and the princes and kings of Judea, from the commencement of the era of Nabonassar, arranged synchronically with the kings of Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Egypt, Syria, and the Roman emperors. p. 433. |