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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P><HI>DANIELS</HI>
WEEKES.</P>
<P>AN
INTERPRETATION
of part of the Prophecy of
DANIEL:</P>
<P>BY JOSEPH MEDE, late Fellow
of <HI>Christs Colledge</HI> in CAMBRIDGE.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed by <HI>M. F.</HI> for JOHN CLARK, and are to be
sold at his Shop under S. <HI>Peters</HI> Church
in <HI>Cornhill.</HI> 1643.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="biblical exegesis">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>DANIELS
VVEEKES.</HEAD>
<P>_THE <HI>Weeks</HI> of <HI>Daniel</HI> are a Divine
Chronology of the Time which
the Sanctuary, with the Legall
Service, should continue, when
it should be restored after the Captivity of
Babylon. During which time, also the
City of Jerusalem it self should be re-inha|bited,
and the walls thereof rebuilded; and
some Lxij. weeks after that began to be,
should Messiah the Redeemer be anoynted,
yea, and cut off and rejected of his own: For
which, when the whole Lxx. weeks (the
time allotted) should expire, their Sanctuary
and City should again be razed, and their
Common-wealth utterly dissolved.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="2" REF="3">
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL>Vers. 24. Cap. 9.</BIBL>
<Q>Seventy weeks are allotted for thy people, and for
thy Holy City, to finish transgression, and make an
end of sinnes, and to make reconciliation for iniqui|ty,
and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse, and
to fulfill vision and prophecy; and to anoint the
MOST HOLY.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P><HI>SEventy Weeks are determined or allotted:</HI>] That
is, The Holy City shall again be restored,
and Lxx. weeks of yeares are allotted and
limited for the continuance thereof, and thy
people with it: and that for this end, that
during the standing thereof, the Messiah, ac|cording
to vision and prophecy, may come
to expiate sinne, and be anointed in his
Kingdome.</P>
<P>The word <GAP DESC="foreign"> here translated <HI>determined</HI>
or <HI>allotted</HI> signifies properly <HI>to be cut,</HI> or <HI>cut
out,</HI> and so may seeme to imply such a sense,
as if the Angel had said to <HI>Daniel,</HI> Howso|ever
your bondage and Captivity under the
Gentiles shall not altogether cease, untill that
succession of Kingdomes, which I before
<PB N="3" REF="3">
shewed thee, be quite finished: yet shall God
for the accomplishing his promise concer|ning
the Messiah, as it were <HI>cut out</HI> of that
long terme and certain limited Time, during
which, the Captivity of Judah and Jerusa|lem
being interrupted, the Holy City and
Common-wealth in some measure shall
again be restored, and so continue till Lxx.
Weeks of yeares be finished.</P>
<P>Here I distinguish the beginning of the
Times of the Holy City from the beginning
of Jerusalem: For the Holy City is so called
of the Temple as the principall part; and
therefore the Time of the restitution thereof,
to be reckoned from the Time the Temple
was builded. But by Jerusalem is understood
(as appeares in the next verse) the externall
buildings and wals of the City, which were
not restored, till some time after the Temple
and Sanctuary was finished.</P>
<P>As for the impletion, all are now agreed,
That the Beginning of these Weeks is to be
reckoned from some Restoring, either of the
Temple; and that in the second, third, or
sixt yeare of the Raigne of some <HI>Darius;</HI> or of
<PB N="4" REF="4">
the City in the seventh or twentieth yeare of
some <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> Kings of <HI>Persia.</HI> But it can|not
be from <HI>Darius</HI> the first sirnamed <HI>Hysta|spis;</HI>
for then they would come out long be|fore
the Birth of Christ. Nor from the first
<HI>Artaxerxes</HI> sirnamed <HI>Longimanus,</HI> for he was
an hinderer of the work of the Temple, and
forbad the building thereof, <HI>Ezra cap. vers. 11.
ad finem.</HI> Nor from the second <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> sir|named
<HI>Mnemon:</HI> for so they would far over|reach
the Destruction of Jerusalem. There|fore
it remaines that they be counted from
<HI>Darius</HI> the second, sirnamed <HI>Nothus;</HI> in the
second yeare of whose raign the work of the
Temple, after a long interruption, began to
revive. <HI>Ezr. 4. v. 24. Hag. c. 1. &amp; 2. Zachar.
c. 1. &amp;c.</HI> and in the sixt yeare of his raign was
finished, <HI>Ezra 6. ver.</HI> 15.</P>
<P>Secondly, these Lxx. Weeks are the time
allotted for the continuance of the Holy Ci|ty,
and therefore must they last, as long as it
lasted, and end with the end thereof: but
this cannot be, unlesse we fixe their <HI>Epocha</HI> in
the beginning of <HI>Darius Nothus. Ergo.</HI></P>
<P>Which in the event is most true. For from
<PB N="5" REF="4">
the third yeare of <HI>Darius Nothus,</HI> when the
work of the Temple (by the incitement of
<HI>Haggai</HI> and <HI>Zachary</HI> renewed the year before)
was now confirmed by a new Edict from
the King to be finished, unto the Destruction
of Jerusalem by <HI>Titus,</HI> are exactly 490 yeares,
that is, Lxx. Weeks of years fully compleat.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>Artaxerxes Longi|manus
<HI>died (saith</HI> Di|odorus
li. 11.) Olymp.
88. 4. <HI>that is&mdash;</HI></CELL>
<CELL>An. Olym|piadico 352</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Mens. Novembri,</HI> or thereabout, for Winter was entred. <HI>Thucyd. lib.</HI> 4.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Ergo Xerxes</HI> (who raigned next
after him one year <HI>(ex eod.)</HI>
dying&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. Olym|piadico. 353</CELL>
<CELL>Mens. Nov.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Sogdianus</HI> also who suc|ceeded
<HI>Xerxes</HI> reigning but
seven Months.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">Anno Olymp. eodem.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">M. Maio.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Darius Nothus</HI> his <HI>Ann<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> 1.
begins&mdash;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Annus 2.</CELL>
<CELL>Anno Olympiad. 354.</CELL>
<CELL>M. Maio.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Annus 3.</CELL>
<CELL>Anno Olympiad. 355</CELL>
<CELL>M. Maio.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>In this third yeare of the King, and at the
end of this Olympiadicall yeare, in the be|ginning
of <HI>August</HI> (as may be supposed) came
<PB N="6" REF="5">
forth the Edict of <HI>Darius,</HI> some ten moneths
after <HI>Zorobabel</HI> and <HI>Ieshua</HI> had begun to renew
the work the yeare before, <HI>Hag.</HI> 1. 14, 15. And
so much time (halfe thereof being Winter)
may well be allowed for their enemies, to
hear of the work, to goe see and do their best
to hinder it, when they could not, to write
and send unto the King, the searching of the
Rolles, and obtaining a new Edict.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Destruction of
<HI>Ierusalem</HI> by <HI>Titus,</HI> I
take as granted</CELL>
<CELL>Anno Olymp. 845. finiente,</CELL>
<CELL> 846. ineunte.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Edict of <HI>Da|rius,</HI>
as is shewed</CELL>
<CELL>Anno Olymp. 345. finiente,</CELL>
<CELL> 356. ineunte.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Distantia</CELL>
<CELL>490</CELL>
<CELL>490</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Account by yeares of Nabonassar ex Canone
Ptolomaei Astronomico.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>The last yeare, or year of <HI>Ne|roes</HI>
death <HI>(Iune 9.)</HI> in <HI>Ptolomies</HI>
Canon answers to <HI>An. 815. Na|bonass.
Ergo,</HI> the yeare of <HI>Ierusa|lems</HI>
Desolation (2. years after)
is concurrent with&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. 817.
Nabonass.</CELL>
<CELL>finiendus in Augusto.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><PB N="7" REF="5">
The first of <HI>Darius No|thus,
in Canone Ptolomaei,</HI>
answers <HI>An. 325. Nabo|nass.
Ergo,</HI> the third year
of <HI>Darius,</HI> is concurrent
with&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. 327.
Nabonass.</CELL>
<CELL>Ordiendus &agrave; De|cembri praecedent.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Differentia</CELL>
<CELL>490</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Notwithstanding all this,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Tem|ple was now fini|shed in 4. years, which argues it was well forwarded before, and much I suppose in the daies of liberty un|der <HI>Darius Hystaspis:</HI> For I take him to bee that <HI>Darius</HI> mentioned <HI>Ezra</HI> 4. 5. and never to have hindred the build|ing, but permitted the Jews to goe on as their po|verty would suf|fer them, which was but slowly</NOTE> I had rather be|gin
the Accompt from the sixt year of <HI>Darius,</HI>
in the Moneth <HI>Adar,</HI> when the Temple was
quite finished (for then it first began to con|tinue,
and not till then) although the Destru|ction
of Jerusalem will then fall out three
years and an half sooner, namely, when the
last week is but half run out. And what if it
do? The Angel, as I conceive, tels us so much
in the last verse, when he sayes, <HI>That in the
midst of a Week the Sacrifice and Oblation should
cease, and the City be made desolate.</HI> But how will
the Prophecy be made good, if the <HI>Seventieth</HI>
Week be not compleat? I answer, It should
be observed (though it useth not to be) that
the Angel reckons not by single yeares, but
by Weeks. If he had said, there should be
490. years to the <HI>Excidium</HI> of Jerusalem, then
indeed to make good the prediction, the
<PB N="8" REF="6">
City and Sanctuary must have been destroy|ed
the last year. But when he sayes, there shall
be Lxx. Weeks allotted for the continuance
of the Holy City, it is enough if it be made
desolate in the seventieth week: For if those
who reckon by yeares, when the yeare de|signed
answers the event, will not stand up|on
the compleatnesse of months and dayes;
nor those who reckon any thing by dayes,
upon the compleatnesse of houres and mi|nutes:
no more in the Angels reckoning
here by weeks, if so the number of the weeks
be compleat, are the parts of a week to be
exacted.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>The time of the De|struction
of <HI>Ierusalem,</HI>
as before&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. Olymp. 845 Mens. 6. August.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>If the third of <HI>Darius</HI>
began about <HI>May</HI> or
<HI>June, Anno Olymp.</HI> 355.
then the sixt year of his
raign begins in <HI>May</HI> or
<HI>June, An.</HI> 358. But the
latter part thereof in
<HI>February</HI> or <HI>Adar,</HI> when
the Temple was fini|shed,
falls in&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. Olymp. 359. Mens. 12. Feb. <HI>or</HI> Adar.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Distantia</CELL>
<CELL>Anni 486 Mens. 6.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>That is just</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>69</CELL>
<CELL>Weeks and an half</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="9" REF="6">
<HEAD>The Accompt by years of Nabonassar.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>The time of the Destru|ction
of <HI>Jerusalem,</HI> as be|fore&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. 817 Nabonass. M. 6.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>If the third year of <HI>Da|rius
Nothus,</HI> were for the
first and greatest part con|current
with <HI>An. 327. Nab.</HI>
as is afore shewed; then
his sixt year (in like man|ner
for the first and grea|test
part) must concur with
<HI>An.</HI> 330. But the head of
the Nabonassarean year,
being then about the 5. of
<HI>Decemb.</HI> the latter end of
this sixt year in <HI>Adar</HI> or
<HI>Feb.</HI> will fall in&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>An. 331 Nabonass. M. 12.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Distantia</CELL>
<CELL>Anni 486 Menses 6.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL>Verse 25.</BIBL>
<Q>Also know and understand, that from the going forth
of the Commandment to cause to Return and to Build
Ierusalem, unto MESSIAH the PRINCE,
shall be sevens of Weeks; even threescore and two
Weeks; the Street shall be built again and the Wall,
even in a strait of times.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P><HI>FRom the going out of the Commandment]</HI> I take
not this <HI>Epocha</HI> to be that of the whole
Lxx. Weeks, but a second Root of another,
<PB N="10" REF="7">
and lesser period of time comprehended in
them; whose Beginning was to be after the
Lxx. were begun, and the end before they
should be ended. The Root of this second
Computation is described to be a time when
two things should be done: A Command|ment
should go forth both to cause to Re|turne
and also to Build, not the Temple (for
that should be done before) nor some few
houses onely, but the whole <HI>Area</HI> or Street
and the Walls of Jerusalem, which should
then be re-edified, though in a strait of
Times; that is, it should be such a time, when
a Commission to cause the people to return
and re-inhabite, should be seconded with
another, to build the Wall of Jerusalem,
and the Plot within the Wall. For by <GAP DESC="foreign">
here, I understand properly that circuit boun|ding
out the limits of the City, whereon the
Wall was builded, and anciently used to be
marked out with a Plough earing a furrow
round about. By <GAP DESC="foreign">, which implies a broad
place, I understand the <HI>Area,</HI> or Plot of
ground within, whereon the houses were to
be builded. From such an <HI>Epocha,</HI> and a Com|mission
<PB N="11" REF="7">
thus characterized as ye have heard,
must this second computation be reckoned.</P>
<P><HI>Vnto MESSIAH the PRINCE]</HI> that
is, unto <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Luke 23. 2. Mark</HI> 15. 32.
or <GAP DESC="foreign">, as the Angell styles him,
<HI>Luke</HI> 2. 11. There is no exposition, no inter|pretation
of any passage in this Prophecy
could seem so harsh, but I would be content
to admit it, rather then yeeld that by MES|SIAH
the PRINCE here named, should
be meant any other then CHRIST our
LORD and Redeemer. For I am perswa|ded
that the Church of Israel in the Gospel
(and from them the Apostles took it) had
no other place of Scripture, whence they did
or could ascribe the name of Christ and Mes|siah
unto him they looked for, but only from
this of <HI>Daniel.</HI> For there is no other Prophecy
in all the Old Testament besides this, where
that Name is directly given him, but only
by way of type.</P>
<P><HI>Shall be sevens of weeks, even Lxij. weeks]</HI> The
numerall word <GAP DESC="foreign"> I have here translated
distributively, understanding by <GAP DESC="foreign">
<HI>Hebdomadae septenae,</HI> that is, many seven
<PB N="12" REF="8">
Weeks, or as our English handsomly expres|seth,
Sevens of Weeks: the sense to be as if
the Angel had said, As the whole time limi|ted
for the continuance of the Holy City
from the first beginning to the last ending,
consisteth of many Sevens of Weeks, <HI>viz.</HI> Lxx.
Weeks: So from this after-<HI>Epocha</HI> here men|tioned
unto MESSIAH, should be like|wise
<HI>Sevens of Weeks, (plures septenniorum hebdo|mades)</HI>
even <HI>Sixty two Weeks of yeares.</HI> For as in
Lxx. are ten Sevens of Weeks; so in Lxij. are
ix. times seven wanting one, and that little
want makes no matter, there being eight
whole sevens besides in that number, and
you shall see in that which follows, examples
of the like. The Hebrews want those num|bers
which the Grammarians call Distribu|tive
or Divisive, <HI>Terni, quaterni, quini, seni,
septeni, &amp;c.</HI> which they most what supply by
repetition, as <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>septem septem,</HI> but not
alwayes, as may appear 2 <HI>Sam. 18. 4. And all
the people came out</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>ad centum &amp;
millia.</HI> i. <HI>centeni &amp; milleni,</HI> by hundreds and by
thousands. 1 <HI>Kings 18. 4.</HI> <Q><HI>Obadiah hid the Pro|phets
of the LORD</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>quin|quaginta
<PB N="13" REF="8">
viros in spelunca, id est, quinquagenos,
by fifty in a Cave.</HI></Q> Gen. 6. 19. <HI>Of all flesh thou
shalt bring into the Ark</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>duo, i. bina,</HI> Twoes;
and therefore afterward <HI>c. 7. ver.</HI> 9. it is dou|bled
<GAP DESC="foreign"> two and two: yet of clean
Beasts whereof he was to take seven, there is
an odde one. To these I adde <HI>Ezra 1. v. 9, &amp;c.</HI>
<Q><HI>This is the number of the vessels</HI> (to wit, of the
House of the LORD which <HI>Cyrus</HI> by the
hand of <HI>Mithredath</HI> numbred unto <HI>Shesh|bazzar</HI>
Prince of <HI>Iudah) thirty Chargers of gold,
a thousand Chargers of silver, twenty nine knives:
thirty Basins of gold: silver Basins of a second
sort, foure hundred and ten, and other vessels</HI>
<GAP DESC="foreign"> (not <HI>mille, a thousand,</HI> but <HI>millena (Tremel.
per millia) Thousands,</HI></Q> to wit, almost three
thousand wanting but one hundred. Other|wise
if we translate it as a Cardinall number
[a thousand] the summe will far exceed the
Parts. For it follows in the next words, <Q><HI>All
the Vessels of gold and of silver were</HI> 5400.</Q> But
unlesse the last number be taken divisive, the
particulars<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><LIST>
<ITEM>30</ITEM>
<ITEM>1000</ITEM>
<ITEM>29</ITEM>
<ITEM>30</ITEM>
<ITEM>410</ITEM>
<ITEM>1000</ITEM>
<ITEM>2499</ITEM>
</LIST></NOTE> make but 2500. wanting one.
Nor do I see how this difficulty would other|wise
be solved.</P>
<P><PB N="14" REF="9">
Now whether these examples be sufficient
to make probable the Translation which I
have given, I will not affirm; let others judge.
I propound it to the consideration of the lear|ned,
who can do it, without whose appro|bation
I shall not satisfie my self. Yet thus
much I am sure of; that if this <GAP DESC="foreign">,
which we are wont to translate <HI>seven weeks,</HI>
could be well bestowed, the chiefest difficulty
were taken from this Prophecy. For the
<HI>Threescore and two Weeks</HI> alone counted from
the <HI>Epocha</HI> here named, so well befits the di|stance
from thence to CHRIST, that the
event seemeth to argue, that they should be
there fixed, and not reckoned from any other
Beginning.</P>
<P>Moreover that <GAP DESC="foreign"> should be a
generall expression of what in the Lxij.
Weeks is after more particularly determined,
may seem probable for these reasons. 1. Be|cause
the Angel ascribes no proper event unto
them; but having presently named the Lxij.
Weeks, makes no farther reckoning of those
other, but follows and dwels upon these on|ly,
as though the other were implied and con|tained
<PB N="15" REF="9">
in them. 2. Those who count them
for Xlix. years, and continue the Lxij. Weeks
from the end of them to make up Lxix.
Weeks in all, can give no sufficient reason
why they should be thus separated and divi|ded
asunder. For that which the followers
of <HI>Funccius,</HI> (who reckon from <HI>Artaxerxes
Longiman.)</HI> assign to be done in seven Weeks
of years (to wit, that during all that time Je|rusalem
with the rest of the Cities of Judah
were building and repairing) is grounded
neither upon Scripture, nor other Story, but
pure and meer conjecture. <HI>Scaliger</HI> finds
<HI>(Nehem. cap. 13. 6.)</HI> That <HI>Nehemiah</HI> returned
again to <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> his Court, in the 32. year
of his raign, and thence supposeth that the
building of the City, about which he was
sent, was finished but the year before, and
that to be the determination of those <HI>seven
Weeks;</HI> there being then 49. years expired
from the time the Lxx. began at the Building
of the Temple under <HI>Darius Nothus.</HI> But to
make this good, he is fain to raise the <HI>Epocha</HI>
of the Lxx. so high in the raign of <HI>Darius,</HI> that
they end before the destruction of Jerusalem.
<PB N="16" REF="10">
Besides, he seems not to be aware, that these
seven Weeks are by the Text to be counted
from a time, when a Commission came out
to cause to return and to build Jerusalem,
and not from the time of building the Tem|ple.
Nor does it follow, <HI>Nehemiah</HI> staid so
long there, therefore the City was till then in
building: Nay, what if the Text rightly con|strued,
imports not that <HI>Nehemiah</HI> in the 32.
year of <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> returned to the Court; but
rather that obtaining new leave of the King,
he came then to Jerusalem the second time,
whence he had been long absent? For the
particle <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Cap. 13. ver.</HI> 6. seems not to be taken
rationally for <HI>[Quia]</HI> but discretively for <GAP DESC="foreign">
<HI>id est, [Sed,</HI> But] as <HI>Ezra 4. 3. 2 Sam. 16. 18.
Gen.</HI> 4. 8. and so that Text of <HI>Nehemiah</HI> to be
read after this sense, <HI>And in all this time</HI> (saith
he) <HI>I was not there;</HI> But <HI>in the 32. yeare of Ar|taxerxes,
&amp;c. I came to the King,</HI> that is, into his
presence, to ask new leave; which after a lit|tle
waiting he obtained. Nor is it very cre|dible,
that the time he first set the King, <HI>cap. 2.
ver.</HI> 6. should be twelve years.</P>
<P>If therefore <GAP DESC="foreign"> be granted to be a
<PB N="17" REF="10">
generall expression of what the Lxij. Weeks
more particularly determine, the way where|by
it may be translated to such a sense is as I
have before represented: yet is it not the
only one; I can adde two wayes more: as
first this, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>seven</HI> useth, we know, to be
taken indefinitely for <HI>plurimi, multoties, &amp;c.</HI>
Thus <GAP DESC="foreign"> would without any ano|maly
or novelty at all, signifie indefinitely
<HI>[Many Weeks]</HI> if it might seem probable, that
in a passage of reckoning by definite num|bers,
some numerall word may be taken in|definitely.
The sense would be all one with
that I have followed. <HI>viz.</HI> As the whole time
limited for the continuance of the Holy City
consisted of many Weeks, even Lxx. Weeks:
So also this lesser period contained therein,
from the <HI>Epocha</HI> mentioned unto MESSI|AH,
shall be a time of Many Weeks, even
Lxij. Weeks. Another way, were it not
somewhat harsh, might be this. The He|brew
Nouns of Cardinall numbers do som|times
<HI>substantivare,</HI> signifying their numbers
<HI>in abstracto,</HI> like those Greek Numeralls, <HI>Mo|nas,
Dyas, Trias, Tetras, Hebdomas.</HI> So <HI>Gen.
<PB N="18" REF="11">
cap. 7. 10. cap.</HI> 8. 12. we have <GAP DESC="foreign"> &amp;
<GAP DESC="foreign">, i. <HI>hebdomas dierum. Exod.</HI> 34. 29.
<GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Decas verborum, Decalogus. Gen.</HI>
17. 12. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Filus ogdoadis dierum.
Ioshua</HI> 14. 2. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Novenarius</HI> or <HI>Enneas
tribuum.</HI> If they be Substantives <HI>in statu con|structo,</HI>
were they not, or may they not be so
<HI>in absoluto?</HI> In the third Chapter and 29. <HI>ver.</HI> of
<HI>Damel</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>in absoluto,</HI> seems to be a Substan|tive
having an Adjective joyned with it,
<GAP DESC="foreign">,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Whereso|ever be|sides in Scripture Seven weeks are mentioned the words are <GAP DESC="foreign"> or <GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> which we translate <HI>[one seven times.]</HI>
If this therefore may be admitted, <GAP DESC="foreign">
in our Text of <HI>Daniel</HI> will sound <HI>per Ellipsin
conjunctionis Hebdomades &amp; Hebdomas, Weeks</HI>
and a <HI>Week,</HI> the sense being all one with the
former, saving that one Week is implied as
singular from the rest, which may be that
which the Angel afterward mentions <HI>ver.</HI> 27.
If it were pointed <GAP DESC="foreign">, as by the con|sonants
it might be, there would be no great
question but it might be translated <HI>Weeks</HI> and
a <HI>Week.</HI></P>
<P>But if <GAP DESC="foreign">, must needs import
some limited time of 49. years; I would ra|ther
choose to count the Lxij. Weeks from the
<PB N="19" REF="11">
same <HI>Epocha</HI> with them under <HI>Artaxerxes Mne|mon,</HI>
then from the end of them, and yet leave
as probable a conjecture to be made of what
was done in them, as those who follow <HI>Func|cius</HI>
from the other <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> do use to
give.</P>
<P>I have sometimes considered, whether, if
it be translated <HI>seven Weeks,</HI> those <HI>seven Weeks</HI>
might not be applyed as <HI>rotundus numerus</HI> to
those <HI>Fifty and two dayes, Nehem.</HI> 6. 15. where it
is said, <HI><Q>So the Wall was finished in the 25. day
of the Moneth Elul in fifty two dayes;</Q></HI> somewhat
more indeed then <HI>seven Weeks,</HI> yet short of <HI>se|ven
&amp; an half,</HI> and so not regarded in accompt
by <HI>Weeks.</HI> If this could be, then the reason of
the Angels division of weeks into 7. and 62.
would be because of divers kinds of Weeks
understood; the first of dayes, wherein the
Wall of Jerusalem should be finished: the
second of years, from thence unto the Messi|ah.
If it seem impossible or unlikely that
the Wall of the City should be repaired in so
short a time, and therefore those words, (ac|cording
to <HI>Iunius)</HI> to be meant of setting up
the doors and bars only: I could say first, that
<PB N="20" REF="12">
the Wall was not new builded from the
foundations, but repaired upon the old ru|ines.
Secondly, the speedy dispatch thereof
was taken for a wonder, even by the Jews
Enemies, who thereupon (saith the Text)
<HI><Q>perceived it was the hand of their God:</Q></HI> So that,
were there no worse scruple then this, it
were easily answered; nor would examples
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">That re|nowned Palace and Court of <HI>Nebuchad|nezzar,</HI> within which were those <HI>Pen|siles Horti,</HI> was fini|shed (saith <HI>Josephus)</HI> in fifteen dayes. <HI>An+tiq. Judaic. li. 10. c.</HI> 11. in the La|tine <HI>c.</HI> 13.</NOTE> be wanting to parallel with it, such as
might make it seem at least possible. As
that strange and speedy building of the
Walls of <HI>Athens</HI> by <HI>Themistocles,</HI> after that
<HI>Xerxes</HI> had demolished them, reported by
<HI>Diodor. Sic. lib.</HI> 11. Yea, to come more near
to the thing in question, <HI>Iosephus lib. 6. c. 13.
De Bell. Iud.</HI> tells us, That <HI>Titus,</HI> dividing
the work amongst his Army, begirt <HI>Ierusa|lem</HI>
in three dayes space, with a Wall of
thirty nine Furlongs, and thirteen Bulwarks
to hinder the Jews excursions from with|in,
and all relief from without. What the
materials were, I know not, but he sayes
it was a thing beyond all belief, and might
have seemed to be a work of some
Moneths. But leaving this digression, let
<PB N="21" REF="12">
us see the computation and impletion of our
Lxij. Weeks.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Computation and impletion of the
Lxij. Weeks.</HEAD>
<P>FRom the seventh yeare of <HI>Artaxerxes
Mnemon,</HI> when <HI>Ezra</HI> had Commission
<HI>to cause to Return</HI> and carry with him, as
many of the Jews as would to Jerusalem,
<HI>Ezra c. 7. ver. 7. &amp;</HI> 13. And from the twen|tieth
year of the same <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> when
<HI>Nehemiah</HI> obtained leave to build Jerusalem
the City of his Fathers Sepulchres, <HI>Nehem.</HI> 2.
From both these Commissions, though
thirteen years distant the one from the other,
are by divine disposition unto MESSIAH
the PRINCE <HI>threescore and two Weeks,</HI>
from the first of <HI>Solar,</HI> from the latter, of
<HI>Lunar</HI> years. For Lxij. weeks, or 434. <HI>Lunar</HI>
years, are lesse then so many <HI>Solar,</HI> as much
as is between the seventh, and twentieth of
<HI>Artaxerxes:</HI> which admirable concordance
I cannot impute to chance; but ascribe to
<PB N="22" REF="13">
divine providence, so ordering it of pur|pose,
that these two <HI>Epocha's</HI> and Commissi|ons,
<HI>To cause to Return,</HI> and, <HI>To build Ierusalem,</HI>
might be as one and the same. And as the
<HI>Lunar</HI> year is contained within the <HI>Solar,</HI> and
by it ordered and directed; so is the Period
here from <HI>Nehemiahs</HI> Commission to Build
the City, contained and reduced to that
from <HI>Ezraes</HI> Commission to cause the people
to return.</P>
<P>In the last of these Weeks according
to prediction was Christ our Lord anoin|ted.
In the beginning whereof exactly,
between the first and second Passeover af|ter
his Baptisme, (when his Harbinger <HI>Iohn</HI>
had now finished his Message, and was
cast in Prison (a time precisely and pur|posely
noted in the Evangelicall Story) he
first began to preach in <HI>Galilee</HI> the Gospel
of the Kingdome, ordained his Apostles,
and proclaimed himselfe to be the MES|SIAH.
<Q><HI>After Iohn was put in Prison,</HI> saith
<HI>Mark 1. 14. Iesus come into Galilee, preaching
the Gospel of the Kingdome of God,</HI> and <HI>saying,</HI>
<GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>The time is fulfilled,</HI> (i. the
<PB N="23" REF="13">
last week of the sixty two weeks is come)
<HI>and the Kingdome of God is at hand.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Wherefore I would take that <HI>Iohn</HI> 3. fro~ the 13. <HI>ver.</HI> to the 21. to be the Evange|lists owne words in|terposed, and not the words of Christ to <HI>Nicodemus.</HI></NOTE> From
that time (saith <HI>Matthew, c.</HI> 4. 17.) Jesus began
to preach, and to say, <HI>Repent, for the King|dome
of heaven is at hand.</HI></Q> This was that day
whereof Christ himself said at <HI>Nazareth,
that that Scripture was fulfilled: The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed
me to preach the Gospel to the poore, &amp;c. and
to preach the acceptable yeare of the Lord,
Luke</HI> 4. This the time and place whence
S. <HI>Peter</HI> reckoned the beginning of Christs
Prophecy in his Sermon to <HI>Cornelius: That
word</HI> (saith he) <HI>which was published throughout
all Iudea, and began from Galilee after the Bap|tisme
which Iohn preached, &amp;c.</HI> Acts 10. 37.</P>
<P>In the third year of this Week (two years
and an half after he began his Prophecy, and
three years and an half after his Baptisme)
being made our Priest, he offered himself
upon the Crosse a Sacrifice for sinne, was
dead, buried, and rose again: Then as|cended
up into heaven to be installed, and
to sit at the right hand of God from
thenceforth to raigne untill he hath put all
<PB N="24" REF="14">
his Enemies under his feet. But you will
say, This was all performed four years
before the 434. years (which is sixty two
Weeks of years) were expired: I answer as
before: The Angell reckons not by single
yeares, but by Weeks, the last whereof
should be Messiahs Week, as we have shew|ed
it to have been. If the Angel had said,
There shall be 434. years unto MESSIAH,
then to make good the prediction MES|SIAH
must have been anointed the last
yeare. But when he sayes, There shall be
Sixty two Weeks unto MESSIAH;
it is sufficient he was anointed the last
Week. But how this Week will at length
be compleat, we shall see in the next verse.
But first let us demonstrate our Compu|tation.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="25" REF="14">
<HEAD>Ezra's Commission.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Darius Nothus</HI> died (saith
<HI>Diodor. lib. 13.)</HI> in the same
yeare, but a little while af|ter
the Composition of the
<HI>Peloponesian</HI> war, (which was
in <HI>May) Olymp.</HI> 93. 4. that is</CELL>
<CELL>An. Olymp.372. finiente.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ergo, The first of <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> be|gins
about <HI>August,</HI> and con|curres
with&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>Anno Olymp. 373.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The seventh of <HI>Artaxerxes</HI>
with&mdash;</CELL>
<CELL>Anno Olymp. 379.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><HI>N. B.</HI> If <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> had began before <HI>Au|gust,</HI>
the number or date of his raign must
have altred either in or between the first and
fifth Moneth, but they are both of one year,
<HI>Ezra</HI> 7. as also the first and the ninth, <HI>Nehem.
c. 1. c.</HI> 2.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Christs Prophecy.</HEAD>
<P>Christ our Lord was Baptized <HI>Anno Olym|piadico
805. ineunte,</HI> about the Feast of Expia|tions,
in the seventh Month <HI>Tisri,</HI> six Months
after <HI>Iohn</HI> began to baptize, and in that year
<PB N="26" REF="15">
naturall and politicall, which began in the
15. of <HI>Tiberius</HI> towards ending, but was the
16. when he was baptized. For <HI>Iohn,</HI> I sup|pose,
began to preach and baptize in the first
Month <HI>Nisan,</HI> (when the Summer was be|fore
him, and not when the Winter was to
enter) in the 15. year of <HI>Tiberius</HI> which ended
<HI>August</HI> following. Now <HI>Iohns</HI> imprisonment
was a year after the Baptisme of Christ,
namely, between the first and second Passeo|ver
after it, as is clear and evident by the Euan|gelicall
Story, <HI>Iohn c. 2. 23. c. 3. 22. &amp; Chap.</HI> 4.
The Beginning therefore of Christs Prophe|cy,
which began at the imprisonment of <HI>Iohn,
Mark</HI> 1. 14. was <HI>Anno Olympiad.</HI> 806. about the
end (I suppose) of the same Month <HI>Tisri,</HI> or
<HI>Septemb.</HI></P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>The beginning of
Christs Prophecy</CELL>
<CELL>An. Olymp.806. Mens. 7.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Time of <HI>Ez|ra's</HI>
Commission</CELL>
<CELL>An. Olymp. 379. Mens. 7.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Differentia</CELL>
<CELL>An. 427.M. o. 61. weeks co~pleat</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>From hence <HI>Mens.</HI> 7. begins the last week:
wherefore the Passion of Christ, at the Pas|soever,
<HI>Mens.</HI> 1. firmly fixed by Chronologi|call
<PB N="27" REF="15">
Characters in the 19. of <HI>Tiberius, Anno
Olymp. 808. Aerae Christian.</HI> 33. (that is agree|able
to the received Tradition but three year
and an half after his Baptisme) will fall to be
in the third year of the week; which is whol|ly
to be compleat, <HI>Ann. Aerae Christ.</HI> 37. when
the 813. <HI>Anno Olymp.</HI> shall be begun and cur|rent
in <HI>Septemb.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL>Verse 26.</BIBL>
<Q>And after the threescore and two Weeks shall
MESSIAH be cut off, and <HI>[they]</HI> none of his:
Wherefore the Princes people to come shall destroy
the City, and the Sanctuary, and the end thereof shall
be with a flood, and unto the end of Warre desola|tions
are determined.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P><HI>ANd after the threescore and two Weeks
shall, &amp;c.]</HI> That is, when the <HI>Threescore
and two Weeks</HI> aforesaid shall expire, and be
fully compleat, (for so the word <HI>[after]</HI> sup|poses
they must be) <HI>MESSIAH shall be cut
off,</HI> not onely from the living, by the death he
should suffer upon the Crosse (for that was a
little before) but from being any longer the
<PB N="28" REF="16">
King and Priest of that People, they refusing
him to be theirs, and he casting off them
from being His, which is the meaning of the
words following <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>And they none of his:</HI>
For <GAP DESC="foreign"> is to be understood, that so the con|junction
<HI>Vau</HI> may couple <HI>similia tempora,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">,
<HI>Et non erit ei populus ejus,</HI> or <GAP DESC="foreign">,
<HI>And they shall be none of His.</HI> And for the Verb
<GAP DESC="foreign">, that it signifies not onely a cutting off
from life, but also from reigning as a King,
or from being a Priest; See for the first,
1 <HI>Kings c. 2. ver. 4. &amp; chap. 9. ver. 5. 2 Chron ch. 7.
ver. 16. Ier.</HI> 33. 17. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;c. <HI><Q>There shall
not be cut off to David a man to sit upon the throne
of the House of Israel:</Q></HI> All which have refe|rence
to 2 <HI>Sam. c. 7. ver.</HI> 16. For the second, cut|ting
off from the Priesthood, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 33. to <HI>Eli,</HI>
<Q><HI>And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from
mine Altar. Ier. 33. 18. Neither of the Priests, the
Levites</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>shall a man be cut off before me, to
offer burnt offerings, &amp;c. and to doe Sacrifice con|tinually.</HI></Q></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="29" REF="16">
<HEAD>The Computation and Impletion.</HEAD>
<P>From the seventh year of <HI>Artaxerxes Mne|mon,</HI>
at the time of the Commission granted
to <HI>Ezra, (Anno Olympiadico</HI> 379. as is already
shewed) unto the fourth year after Christs
Ascension <HI>(Anno Olymp. 813. Aerae Christianae
Dionysiacae 37.)</HI> are Lxij. weeks of years, or 434.
years fully compleat and expired. The next
year after, was Christ divorced and cut off
from the Jews, and they <GAP DESC="foreign"> cast off from
being His people; which may appear thus:</P>
<P>Christ suffered upon the Crosse,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno Aerae Christian. 33.</NOTE>
rose from the dead,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I begin &amp; end these yeares in <HI>Tisri,</HI> or <HI>Septemb.</HI> that so they may agree with that time of the Co~mission granted to <HI>Ezra,</HI> which I before supposed to have been about that month</NOTE> and ascended
into heaven. The Holy Ghost
descended at Pentecost, 3000.
converted, more added; the Apo|stles
forbidden, but cease not to
preach Jesus Christ. So this year
ends about <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P>The number of Disciples much
increased:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno Aerae Christian. 34.</NOTE> Deacons chosen, and
<HI>Steven</HI> one of them, <HI>Act. 6. 1, 2, 3, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="30" REF="17">
<HI>Steven</HI> doth great wonders and
miracles.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno Aerae Christian. 35.</NOTE> The Word of God,
and the number of Disciples in|creaseth
so, that a great company
of the Priests were obedient unto
the Faith. The Elders and people
rage, and about the end of the
yeare was <HI>Steven</HI> martyred, <HI>Acts
c. 6. ver. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. cap. 7. ver. 1.
ad finem.</HI></P>
<P>Great persecution against the
Church at Jerusalem.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno Aerae Christian. 36.</NOTE> <HI>Saul</HI> makes
havock, <HI>Acts c.</HI> 8. whereupon the
Disciples were scattered through
the Regions of Judea and Sama|ria,
every where preaching the
Gospel, <HI>ver.</HI> 4, 5. Of whose suc|cesse
the Apostles being infor|med,
send <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>Iohn</HI> to Sama|ria,
to lay hands on the new con|verts,
<HI>ver.</HI> 14. which done, and
by the way preaching the Gospel
in the villages of Samaria, they
returned againe to Jerusalem.
<HI>ibid.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="31" REF="17">
Those which were scattered
upon the persecution of <HI>Steven,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Anno Aerae Christian. 37.</NOTE>
proceed further, and travelled as
farre as <HI>Phoenice, Cyprus</HI> and <HI>Anti|och</HI>
(having by the way preached
the Gospel to the Jews at <HI>Dama|scus</HI>
(how came they there else?)
<HI>Cap.</HI> 11. Which <HI>Saul</HI> hearing of, gets
letters thither, to bring those he
should find there of that way un|to
Jerusalem. But in his journey
himself was miraculously con|verted
and baptized, &amp;c. <HI>Peter</HI> in
the mean time was gone again
from <HI>Ierusalem</HI> by <HI>Lydda</HI> unto <HI>Ioppa,</HI>
where he remained all this yeare
at the house of <HI>Simon</HI> the Tanner.</P>
<P>The next year after <HI>(Anno Aerae Christianae
38. Anno Olympiadico 813.)</HI> according as was
foretold, <HI>That after threescore and two Weeks
were ended, MESSIAH should be cut off, and
they none of his)</HI> when Christ had now one
whole Week of years tendred himself unto
his own people, and they not onely refused
<PB N="32" REF="18">
him, but first by crucifying the Lord himself,
and after that by persecuting his Messengers
sent unto them, had made themselves un|worthy
of everlasting life: <HI>Peter</HI> was taught
by vision, that the Gospel of the Kingdome
should be preached unto the Gentiles, and
accordingly sent to preach it to <HI>Cornelius</HI> a
Centurion of the Italian band, <HI>Acts</HI> 10. And
here begins the <HI>Epocha</HI> of the Rejection of Is|rael,
and the Calling of the Gentiles, which
S. <HI>Paul</HI> speaks so much of <HI>Rom.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>True it is, the cutting off of Christ by death
was before the last week was compleat; but
the cutting him off from being King and
Priest of the Jews was not untill after it was
ended. Or if this cutting off here mentioned
may not be extended to any other cutting off
then by Death; yet the other part of the co|pulative
sense, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>[And they shall be none of
His]</HI> was not fulfilled untill the whole Week
was ended.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore the PRINCES to come, &amp;c.]</HI>
<GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Populus</HI> MESSIAE <HI>venturus,
i. futurus.</HI> The People that should be the peo|ple
of Messiah the Prince, when Israel was
<PB N="33" REF="18">
rejected; so the Hebrews call <HI>seculum futurum,</HI>
<GAP DESC="foreign">; whence <HI>Mark 10. ver. 13. Luke</HI> 18.
30. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Eph.</HI> 2. 7. <GAP DESC="foreign">.
According to which notion, <HI>Apoc.</HI> 1. 4.
<GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Vid. Psal. 71. 18. Esay 27. 6.
Esay</HI> 44. 7. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Vulgat. ventura &amp;
quae futura sunt.</HI> Thus I construe the Text, and
understand by <HI>Populus principis futurus,</HI> the peo|ple
of the Romane Empire, where Christ
was principally to have his Church and
Kingdome, whilst Israel should be rejected.
<HI>Cornelius</HI> therefore the first Gentile converted
was a Romane Centurion. S. <HI>Paul,</HI> who is
called the Apostle of the Gentiles, went not
beyond the bounds of the Empire. This was
that <GAP DESC="foreign"> whereof Christ said, <HI>Matth.</HI> 24.
That before the Destruction of Jerusalem,
<HI>the Gospel should be preached</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">,
as <HI>Augustus</HI> is said <HI>Luke</HI> 2. 1. to have taxed, <GAP DESC="foreign">,
according as the Romanes them|selves
used to call it <HI>Imperium Orbis Terrarum,
&amp;c.</HI> Antichrist, who was to sit in the Temple
or Church of Christ, sits in the midst of this
Empire: whence it appears, that the Church,
which Christ should have,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">whilest.</NOTE> after Israel dis|claimed
<PB N="34" REF="19">
him, should chiefly be in it. This
People therefore, which was in Israels stead
to be the People of Messiah the Prince, should
destroy the City and Sanctuary with such
a Destruction as should like a Flood over|whelme
the whole Nation, and as an unre|sistible
torrent, break down and wash all
away before it. All which we know they
did.</P>
<P><HI>And unto the end of Warre Desolations are de|termined]</HI>
That is, untill the end of the Fourth
Kingdome of the Gentiles, whose last period
is that Time times and half a Time, whereof
it is said <HI>Dan. 7. ver.</HI> 21, 22, 25. <Q>That Antichrist
<HI>the eyed and mouthed Horn should make War with
the Saints, and prevail against them, and they shall
be given into his hand untill a Time and Times
and half a Time:</HI></Q> Untill the end of this <HI>War</HI>
the Jewish Desolations are determined. But
of this more in the next.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="35" REF="19">
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL>Verse 27.</BIBL>
<Q>Neverthelesse he shall confirme a covenant with
Many one week: and in half a week, <HI>being</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Or,</HI> ma|king desola|tion, he, &amp;c.</NOTE> a Desola|ter
he shall cause the Sacrifice and oblation to cease,
and that <HI>being</HI> over a wing of Abominations, and un|till
the finall time, (even that which is determined) it
shall continue upon the desolate.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>HEre the Angell tels us what should be
be done in the last Week, both of the
first Computation, and of the second, that is,
the last of the Lxx. and the last of the Lxij.
And of this first, as comming first in time.</P>
<P><HI>Neverthelesse</HI> (saith he) <HI>he shall confirme a
Covenant with Many one Week]</HI> That is, though
the Body of the Jewish Nation should be
cast off, end be <GAP DESC="foreign">, None of the people of
the MESSIAH, yet for one whole week
he should offer himself unto them, and ga|ther
many of them into the Covenant of the
Gospel: and this Week was the last Week of
the Threescore and two Weeks, which, as I
shewed before, was wholly spent in preach|ing
<PB N="36" REF="20">
to those of the Circumcision. This there|fore
is, as it were, a <HI>Prolepsis,</HI> lest <HI>Daniel</HI> might
think that none of his people should enter
into the Covenant under Messiah. These
Many therefore are that Remnant whereof
S. <HI>Paul</HI> speaks <HI>Rom.</HI> 11. <Q>That, though Israel
were cast off, yet was there <HI>A Remnant accor|ding
to the election of grace;</HI></Q> and therefore he
limits the hardnesse <HI>happened unto Israel,</HI> by
<GAP DESC="foreign">, as not being universall.</P>
<P><HI>And in half a Week, being a Desolator, he shall
cause the Sacrifice and offering to cease]</HI> A Desola|ter,
<GAP DESC="foreign">, a word which otherwise much
troubleth the Translator; but being thus
made a <HI>suppositum</HI> or Nominative case to the
verb <GAP DESC="foreign">, (which hath no other near it) it
both much clears the sense, and retains its
propriety of signification. Nor is the Postpo|sition
of the Nominative case to the verb
against the use of the tongue; nor the traje|ction
here so great, but the Latin will admit
the same order of the words, <HI>viz. Et abolebit
sacrificium &amp; munus, atque erit super alam abomina|tionum
Desolator:</HI> Or, <HI>Et abolebit sacrificium, &amp;
munus, qui erit super alam abominationum, Desola|tor.</HI>
<PB N="37" REF="20">
Howsoever the Translation be, this week
the Angel now speaks of, is the last of the
Seventy which should be but half run out,
when the Temple and City should be de|stroyed,
and the legall service made to cease.
For if we reckon (as I think we should) the
Seventy Weeks from the sixt year of <HI>Darius
Nothus</HI> (when the Temple was finished) the
Destruction thereof by <HI>Titus</HI> will fall out (as
is shewed) in the midst of the last Week, the
whole half thereof, from the beginning till
then, having bin spent in warlike preparations
and exploits, which ended with the burning
and desolation both of City and Sanctuary.</P>
<P>Of those who end the Seventieth Week
compleatly with the Destruction of Jerusa|lem,
some seem so to understand this first
part of the verse, as if the <HI>one Week</HI> here men|tioned
were the last of the Seventy, and the
confirmation of the Covenant to be therein,
to respect only the first half thereof, wherein
Christ made good his Covenant of preser|vation
to the beleeving Jews, namely, (as I
would explain it) by sending <HI>Cestius Gallus</HI>
President of <HI>Syria,</HI> in the middle or fourth
<PB N="38" REF="21">
year of the last Week, about seven dayes to
environ Jerusalem with an Army, for to be
that sign and watch-word mentioned in the
Gospel of the near approaching Desolation
thereof, <HI>Luke</HI> 21. 20. that so those which were
in <HI>Iudea</HI> being warned, might flee into the
Mountains (of <HI>Arabia Petraea</HI> to <HI>Pella)</HI> and
deliver themselves from those dayes of ven|geance
and wrath upon their people. And
in the other half of the Week which remai|ned,
he should cause the sacrifice and offe|ring
to cease by sending <HI>Vespasian</HI> with that
second and fatall Army which should bring
those wofull and vengefull Desolations up|on
them.</P>
<P>As for the phrase of Confirming a Cove|nant
(if the rest suted well) it would be no
straining to interpret it, to be meant of pre|servation
and exemption from a common
calamity: For we have the like speech <HI>Gen.</HI> 6.
17, 18. where God having said to <HI>Noah,</HI> that
he would destroy by the Flood every thing
<HI>that breathed upon the earth;</HI> addeth, <HI>But with
thee will I establish my Covenant, and thou shalt come
into the Ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
<PB N="39" REF="21">
sons wives with thee, &amp;c.</HI> Thus much of the
Week and Half Week: But for the Desola|ter
who should cause the sacrifice and obla|tion
to cease, whether and how it may be ap|plied
to Messiah himselfe, or otherwise con|strued,
we shall better understand when the
next is expounded.</P>
<P><HI>And that</HI> [being] <HI>over a wing of Abominations]</HI>
<GAP DESC="foreign">, I think literally rendred, as
was the former. If any man would also have
the order of the words precisely kept, and
therefore <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>i.</HI> Desolater to keep his sta|tion
here, as in the Hebrew, he may render
the words thus, <HI>He shall cause the sacrifice and
oblation to cease,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>And
[commanding] over a Wing of Abominations [be] a
Desolater</HI> or <HI>make Desolation;</HI> The sense is yet
the same: Or thus, <HI>And over a Wing of Abomi|nations
[shall he be] who makes Desolation:</HI> All of
them requiring nothing else, but that so com|mon
<HI>Ellipsis</HI> of the Verb Substantive, which
in some expressions of this language is per|petuall.
Now for the construing and ex|pounding
this and the rest which remains of
this verse, I have alwaies in mine eye that part
<PB N="40" REF="22">
of the Prophecy of our Saviour in the Gospel,
<HI>Mat. 24. Mark</HI> 13. where he so expresly referres
to this of <HI>Daniel,</HI> with an unwonted caveat not
to passe it over sleightly, <HI>Let him</HI> (saith he) <HI>that
readeth, understand:</HI> which admonition, as it
implies the speciall need we have of our Sa|viours
Key to unlock it; so it may seem to
intimate that neither the Lxx. before, nor the
ordinary construction of their Rebbies then,
had hit the meaning of this Scripture. Where|fore
S. <HI>Luke</HI> relates not here (as <HI>Matth.</HI> and
<HI>Mark</HI> do) our Saviours words <HI>verbatim,</HI> but
exegetically; of set purpose (so I am perswa|ded)
expounding this place of <HI>Daniel,</HI> as
will appear by that which follows.</P>
<P><HI>Over a Wing of Abominations]</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Auth. op. imperf. in <HI>Mat.</HI> hom. 49. initio hanc expo|sitionem ad Petrum re|fert. Hoc &amp; Petrus, inquit, a|pud <HI>Cle|mentem</HI> exponit.</NOTE> That is, An
Army of Idolatrous Gentiles. Even the selfe
same which S. <HI>Luke</HI> saith <HI>Chap. 21. Ierusalem
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles;</HI> who also
expoundeth <HI>Wing</HI> by <HI>Armies,</HI> putting in stead
of those words of our Saviour, [<Q><HI>When ye
shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of
by Daniel the Prophet, stand in the holy place]</HI>
these, <HI>When ye shall see Ierusalem compassed with
Armies;</HI></Q> and in both it follows, <HI>Then let them
<PB N="41" REF="22">
which be in Iudaea flee into the mountains.</HI> The
word <GAP DESC="foreign"> Wing is of the Verb <GAP DESC="foreign">, (but once
found in the Hebrew Scripture) which sig|nifies
according to the Chaldee and Arabick,
<HI>To gather together:</HI> besides, in the Arabick, <HI>cir|cundare,</HI>
to environ or compasse about; Both
significations sute well to an Army, and the
latter, that which beleaguers and begirts a
City or Fort besieged. Had S. <HI>Luke</HI> any refe|rence
to this, when he speaks of Jerusalem
<HI>compassed with an army?</HI> The metaphor also
of a Wing leanes most this way, whether we
consider their figure and motion being
stretched out, or their posture when Birds
of rapine sit couring over their prey. I will
not say, the Romane Eagle was here aimed
at, though <GAP DESC="foreign">, is used, not onely for <HI>Ala,</HI> a
<HI>Wing,</HI> but for <HI>Alatum &amp; Volatile,</HI> a Fowle or
Winged Creature. It is sufficient that neither
the nature nor name of a Wing is strange or
unaccustomed to an Army. But how (will
you say) will an Army of Abominations be
made an Army of Gentiles? I answer,
The Scripture in many places calleth
Idols by the name of Abominations, that
<PB N="42" REF="23">
is, <GAP DESC="foreign">: So the Egyptian Idols,
<HI>Exod. 8. ver. 26, &amp;c.</HI> are called, The Abomina|tion
of the Egyptians. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 7. 20. The Jews
are said to have made the Images of their
Abominations, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>(Ier.</HI> 7. 20. to have set
up <GAP DESC="foreign">) that is, their Idols in the House
of the Lord. So 2 <HI>Kings 23. Ashtaroth</HI> is called
<GAP DESC="foreign">, the Abomination of the <HI>Sidonians, Cemosh</HI>
<GAP DESC="foreign">, the Abomination of the <HI>Moabites;</HI> but
<HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lcom</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Abomination of the Chil|dren
of <HI>Ammon.</HI> Wherefore 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 11. 5, 7.
<GAP DESC="foreign"> is by the Seventy thrice Translated <GAP DESC="foreign">.</P>
<P>This being a thing manifest, we are to ob|serve
further, That the Scripture useth also
to expresse and imply under the names of
the Gods, the Nations themselves which
worshipped them. The Lord threatned to
<HI><Q>scatter Israel among the Nations, and that there
they should serve other Gods day and night, Gods,
the works of mens hands, wood and stone, and
which neither they nor their Fathers had known:</Q></HI>
That is, they should serve them not <HI>religiously,</HI>
but <HI>politically,</HI> in as much as they were to be|come
<HI>Slaves</HI> and <HI>Vassals</HI> to Idolatrous Nati|ons,
<PB N="43" REF="23">
even such Idolaters, as neither they nor
their Fathers had ever heard of. Let it also be
considered whether that of <HI>David, 1 Sam.</HI> 26. 19.
be not to be expounded after the same Trope:
<Q><HI>They have</HI> (saith he) <HI>driven me out this day from
abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Goe
serve other Gods;</HI></Q> <HI>i.</HI> they have driven me to serve
a Nation of another Religion. Yea, <HI>Ezra</HI> 9. 14.
fitly to our purpose, The Strangers with
whom the people of Israel had contracted
affinity, are called expresly <GAP DESC="foreign">, The
people of Abominations, which the Seventy
render <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>The people of the Lands,</HI> that
is, Gentiles. And where we reade in the first
verse, <Q><HI>The people of Israel, &amp;c. have not separated
themselves from the people of the Lands according
to their Abominations, &amp;c.</HI> It is the same phrase
with that of <HI>Moses, Cattell after their kinde,
creeping things after their kinde:</HI></Q> That is, the
severall kinds of cattell &amp; of creeping things:
so the people of the Lands according to their
Abominations is, the severall kinds of Ido|laters
of the Lands about them. And thus we
have shewed, that <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Wing of
Abominations, is as much as <GAP DESC="foreign">,
<PB N="44" REF="24">
an Armie of people of Abominations,
That is, of Gentiles and Worshippers of
Idols.</P>
<P>But who is this Desolater, or Maker of
Desolations, who should command over
this Wing of Abominations, and bring these
Gentiles against the Holy City? &resp; The
words in the Originall stand indifferent to be
applied either to the Romane Generall, or
Messiah; but I could not render them so in|differently:
For if I render them, <HI>And in half
a Week a Desolater shall cause the sacrifice and offe|ring
to cease, and that</HI> (being) <HI>over a Wing of Abo|minations,</HI>
Or, <HI>Over a Wing of Abominations</HI> (shall
he be) <HI>who makes desolation;</HI> This Desolater
would then seem to be some other then Mes|siah,
that is the Romane Generall: But ren|der
them as I doe, <HI>And making desolation, or be|ing
a Desolater, He shall cause the sacrifice and
offering to cease, and that, &amp;c.</HI> Or, <HI>He shall cause
the sacrifice and offering to cease, and [commanding]
over a Wing of Abominations, be a Desolater:</HI> ei|ther
way of these, they will have reference to
MESSIAH the Prince, who is the Person
meant in the words immediately before, <HI>[He
<PB N="45" REF="24">
shall confirm a Covenant with many one Week.]</HI>
And this I most incline to, that so the Person
spoken of may be the same throughout, and
a reason also appear of that additament, That
this Desolater should be over an Army of
Abominations: For if a Forein Generall
were onely meant, what needed this Additi|on?
what other Army could such a one lead,
but Gentiles? But that Messiah himselfe
should command over an Army of Ido|laters,
this needed a speciall intimation.</P>
<P>And surely the Romane Army, though
an Army of Abominations, was in this ser|vice
the Army of Messiah: So the Para|ble
aiming at this Prophecy tels us <HI>Mat.</HI> 22. 7.
When the King heard how spitefully they en|treated
his Messengers who came to tell
them, the Wedding whereunto they had
been bidden, was ready: <Q><HI>He was wroth</HI> (saith
the Text) <HI>and sent forth HIS Armies and destroyed
those Murtherers,</HI></Q> <HI>and burnt up their City.</HI> Whence
it is, that the comming of this desolating
Army of the Romans is called the comming
of Christ, <HI>Iames 5.</HI> <Q><HI>Weep and howl ye rich men</HI>
(he writeth to Jews) <HI>for the miseries that shall
<PB N="46" REF="25">
come upon you; for you have heaped up goods for
the last dayes;</HI></Q> That is, (according to <HI>Oecu|menius)</HI>
when the end of your State is a com|ming
and the Romanes shall spoil you of all:
which is expressed in the eighth verse by
Christs comming; <Q><HI>Be ye patient</HI> (saith he)
<HI>untill the comming of the Lord,</HI></Q> (he speaks to
the beleeving Jews whom the rest persecu|ted)
and in the next, <HI><Q>Stablish your hearts for
the comming of the Lord draweth nigh;</Q></HI> He mea|neth
(saith <HI>Oecumenius)</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">
So he takes
that of <HI>Iohn,</HI> <Q><HI>If I will that he stay till&punc; I come,</HI></Q>
that is (saith he) <GAP DESC="foreign">, till
the Destruction of Jerusalem. And proves
that this comming of Christ is <GAP DESC="foreign">,
<HI>Excidium Hierosolymorum,</HI> by that of
<HI>Malachi Cap. 3.</HI> <Q><HI>Behold, the Lord shall come, and
who shall abide the day of his comming?</HI></Q> And
thus would I understand that <HI>Heb. 10. 37. For
<Q>yet a little while and He that shall come will come,</Q>
and will not tarry.</HI> Messiah therefore himself
seems to be that Desolater here meant, who
should command over an Army of Abo|minations,
when he came to destroy
<PB N="47" REF="25">
the City and the Sanctuary.</P>
<P>Thus it appears our Saviours citation in
the Gospel is not of the very words of <HI>Daniel</HI>
in this passage, but of the sense onely summa|rily
expressed; and that <GAP DESC="foreign">, is
to be expounded <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>The Abo|mination,</HI>
or <HI>Abominable Army,</HI> over which he
should be, who should <HI>make desolation.</HI> As
for the Seventy, or whosoever else (for
S. <HI>Hierome</HI> doubts) translated this Book, if
their Translation here were originally as we
now have it, and not translated thither out of
our Saviours words in the Gospel, they seem
to have accommodated the place, though
of unlike construction and circumstance of
sense, unto two other places, <HI>Chap. 11. 31.
Chap.</HI> 12. 11. where some such kinde of Abo|mination
is mentioned, and likewise the par|ticiples,
<GAP DESC="foreign">: But in all three of
them, not well understanding what subject
these participles included, they contented
themselves onely to expresse by <GAP DESC="foreign">, or
<GAP DESC="foreign">, a generall relation of desolation in
the abstract, which might be diversly inter|pretable,
<PB N="48" REF="26">
otherwise it is not possible by any
alteration of the points to expresse their
Translation <HI>verbatim</HI> out of this place, un|lesse
<GAP DESC="foreign"> were <HI>in statu constructo,</HI> as it is
not.</P>
<P><HI>And untill the finall time (even that which is de|termined)
it shall continue upon the desolate]</HI> Here I
have chosen to translate the verb <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>continue,</HI>
as the <HI>Targum</HI> renders it, <HI>Ier. c. 7. 19. &amp;c.</HI> 42. 18.
and the Vulgar here <HI>perseverabit,</HI> as a meta|phoricall
signification taken from a continu|ed
pouring of water. It is the Feminine Gen|der,
and therefore to be referred to a Femi|nine
<HI>suppositum,</HI> which I take to be <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Ala:</HI>
This wing of Abominations, that is <HI>metonymice</HI>
the Desolation wrought by it, or forein pos|session
brought in by it, should continue up|on
the Desolate, untill the finall time which
was determined should be accomplished.
Or those Gentile people of the Romane Em|pire,
by whom Jerusalem was destroyed,
should continue their dominion and posses|sion
either of the place or desolate inhabitants
once thereof, untill that finall time be accom|plished.
Whether this or that sutes best; the
<PB N="49" REF="26">
meaning in S. <HI>Lukes</HI> language is thus expres|sed,
<HI><Q>The Iews shall be carried captive over all
Nations, and Ierusalem trodden down of the Gen|tiles,</Q>
untill the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled:</HI>
That is, (as was said before) untill the Mo|narchies
of the Gentiles should be finished.
For these Times of the Gentiles are that last
period of the fourth Kingdome prophecied
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dan. 7.</NOTE> of <HI>a Time Times and half a Time;</HI> at the end
whereof the Angel swears unto <HI>Daniel, ca. 12. 7
That God should accomplish to scatter the power of
the Holy People.</HI> This is that Fulnesse of the
Gentiles, which being come, S. <HI>Paul</HI> tels us,
<HI><Q>The Deliverers shall come out of Sion, and all Is|rael
shall be saved.</Q></HI> And the Angel in the <HI>Apoc.</HI>
10. 6. renews the same oath to S. <HI>Iohn,</HI> which
he sware before to <HI>Daniel,</HI> <Q><HI>That when these
Times</HI> (N.B.) <HI>should end and be no longer, the my|stery
of God should be finished, as he had declared
to his servants the Prophets.</HI></Q> Amen.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="appendix">
<PB N="50" REF="27">
<HEAD>Appendix.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough I think, that precisenesse of
dayes is not to be much stood upon,
when the events and their times do in the
whole answer to Prediction: yet have I been
so curious as to enquire, whether the Desola|tion
of City and Sanctuary (to be in the mid|dle
of the seventieth Week) were fulfilled to
a very day or not? And as I think, I have so
found it, very near, if not altogether.</P>
<P>For <HI>Anno Iudaico 3344. Aerae mundi Scaligeria|nae</HI>
3533. (the year the Temple was finished)
<HI>Neomenia Tisri,</HI> according to the Jews Calen|der,
fell upon the 9. of <HI>September Calendarii Iu|liani,
Feria 1. Cyclo Solis 12. Litera Dominic.</HI> G.</P>
<P><HI>Ergo Neomenia Adar</HI> was <HI>Febr. 4. Fer. 2. Cyclo
Solis 13. Lit. Dominic.</HI> F. So the 3. of <HI>Adar</HI> (the
day whereon the Temple was finished, <HI>Ez. 6.
15.)</HI> will be the 6. of <HI>February.</HI> From whence to
the 8. of <HI>August,</HI> (whereon the Temple was
fired, and two dayes after consumed) are ex|clusive
182. dayes, that is, halfe a year <HI>ad un|guem.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="51" REF="27">
But this year (according to the Judaicall
Calender) was <HI>Annus Embolimaeus,</HI> and so had
two <HI>Adars;</HI> which of them the Scripture mea|neth,
is doubtfull. But the <HI>Neomenia</HI> of the se|cond
<HI>Adar</HI> was <HI>March 5. Feria</HI> 4. So the 3. day
of this <HI>Adar</HI> was the 7. of <HI>March:</HI> From whence
to the 8. of <HI>Septemb.</HI> (the day whereon the Ci|ty
was fired) are exclusive 184. dayes, which is
a day or two too much. But it is more then
probable that the Jewish Calender was not
in <HI>Darius</HI> his time so exact, nor the Moons
motion so well known, but the New Moon
might sometimes anticipate the beginning of
their Months a day or two.</P>
<P>Howsoever those who begin their recko|ning
from the 2. year of <HI>Darius,</HI> as <HI>Scaliger</HI> doth,
cannot from the 24. day of the 6. Month <HI>(Sept.
16)</HI> (which the Prophet <HI>Haggai</HI> names <HI>(cap. 1.
v. ult.)</HI> for the day whereon the work began)
shew their compleat Seventy Weeks so exact|ly
terminated upon any event remarkable du|ring
the whole time of the War. For as for
the destruction of Jerusalem it self, they come
not near by whole years.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="52" REF="28">
<HEAD>Of the opinion of Funcius.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FVncius</HI> his computation of the Lxx. weeks
from the seventh of <HI>Artaxerxes Longima|nus</HI>
(whence to Christs Passion he finds just
490. years) hath three great and unavoidable
inconveniencies.</P>
<P>1. That it ends the 70. Weeks (which by the
text were allotted for the Holy City) long be|fore
the times of the holy City were fulfilled.</P>
<P>2. That this <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> might not be <HI>Ar|taxerxes</HI>
the Hinderer of the Building of the
Temple, but that second <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> that gave
Commission to <HI>Ezra</HI> and <HI>Nehemiah,</HI> they are
fain to bestow the names of <HI>Ahasuerus</HI> and <HI>Ar|taxerxes</HI>
mentioned <HI>Ezra</HI> 4. upon <HI>Cambyses</HI> and
the counterfeit <HI>Tanioxarces</HI> or <HI>Smerdis</HI> (whom
others call <HI>Sphendates)</HI> the <HI>Magus,</HI> without any
ground in Scripture or prophane History;
nay, against probability. For if <HI>Ahasuerus</HI> be
<HI>Cambyses</HI> (as by order he should be) and <HI>Artax|erxes</HI>
be <HI>Smerdis</HI> the <HI>Magus,</HI> how will that busi|nesse
in the daies of <HI>Artaxerxes, Ezra</HI> 4. 7. befit
the 7. Months raign of <HI>Smerdis?</HI> Or if prepo|sterously
(as some will have it) <HI>Ahasuerus</HI> be
<PB N="53" REF="28">
that <HI>Smerdis,</HI> what needed the Holy Ghost so
precisely to mention the Beginning<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Ezra 4. 6.</NOTE> of his
raign, if he raigned but seven Months in all?
Secondly, Neither <HI>Cambyses</HI> nor <HI>Smerdis</HI> can be
<HI>Ahasuerus:</HI> For <HI>Ahasuerus, Esther</HI> 3. 7. (and why
should we feign any other <HI>Ahasuerus</HI> of <HI>Persia</HI>
then the Scripture describeth, and so diligent|ly
distinguishes from <HI>Ahasuerus</HI> the <HI>Mede,</HI> as if
there had been then no other? <HI>Esth. 1. 1.)</HI> raigned
at least twelve years, whereas <HI>Cambyses</HI> raigned
but seven years, and <HI>Smerdis</HI> but so many
months.</P>
<P>3. They cannot shew how 69. Weeks, or
62. Weeks added to 7. Weeks, (for they have
no other way) are determined upon Messiah
the Prince; since they out-reach his Nativity,
and end 7. years before his Passion (which
was in the 19.) and therefore 3. years at least
before <HI>Iohns</HI> Baptisme, which was in the 15. of
<HI>Tiberius.</HI> Wherefore neither beginning nor
ending, neither part nor whole of the sixtieth
and ninth Week can point us out any time of
the manifestation of Messiah.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
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