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The seventy weeks prophecy is internally dated to "the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede" (Daniel 9:1), [34] later referred to in the Book of Daniel as "Darius the Mede" (e.g. Daniel 11:1); [35] however, no such ruler is known to history and the widespread consensus among critical scholars is that he is a literary fiction. [36]
[26] [27] Jerome in his Commentary on Daniel went into the kingdoms that Daniel predicted. [28] Many Protestant Reformers were interested in historicism and the day-year principle, assigning prophecies in the Bible to past, present and future events. It was prevalent in Wycliffe's writings, [14] and taught by Martin Luther, [29] [30] John ...
The day-year principle was partially employed by Jews [7] as seen in Daniel 9:24–27, Ezekiel 4:4-7 [8] and in the early church. [9] It was first used in Christian exposition in 380 AD by Ticonius, who interpreted the three and a half days of Revelation 11:9 as three and a half years, writing 'three days and a half; that is, three years and six months' ('dies tres et dimidium; id est annos ...
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th-century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", [1] the text features a prophecy rooted in Jewish history, as well as a portrayal of the end times that is both cosmic in scope and political in its focus. [2]
Seventy "week" period (Daniel 9:24–27 (KJV)) [9] is held to begin in 457 BC, the seventh year of Artaxerxes I. The "2300 evenings and mornings" period (Daniel 8:13–14 (KJV)) [10] is held to commence in the same year. 2300 days are held to correspond to 2300 years (see Day-year principle) 457 BC plus 2300 years gives 1844 AD. [11]
According to dispensational premillennialism, the seventieth week of Daniel's seventy weeks prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 is yet unfulfilled, to occur in the future. [17] The prophecy of weeks is interpreted as referring to years, with a week meaning 7 years. [18]
Daniel 9 in You Take Jesus and I'll Take God by S. Levine, revised edition, Hamoroh Press, Los Angeles, 1980 – explains the Jewish understanding of Daniel 9:24–27 The Romance of Biblical Chronology Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine , by Martin Anstey (London: Marshall Brothers, 1913) – interprets Daniel as prophesying the ...
Desmond Ford, Crisis: A Commentary on the Book of Revelation Volumes 1–3, 1982. Daniel commentaries: Daniel, 1978; Daniel and The Coming King, 1996; In the Heart of Daniel: An Exposition of Daniel 9:24–27, 2007; and others; Le Roy Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers DjVu (4 volumes), the classic in-depth study