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_i.e._, from the period of
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) upon his people and his city. From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Anointed One (the Messiah), the Prince, would be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks. After this the Anointed One would be cut off, and would have nothing (Dan. 9. 24-26). This period is 69 times 7, or 483 years, and to the very day this was the period commencing with the command of Artaxerxes Longimanus, King of Persia, for the restoration of Jerusalem (Neh. 2. 1-9), and ending with the triumphal entry of Christ into the city (Matt. 21. 1-11).[B] Four days later He was crucified,
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_i.e._, He did not enter then upon His Messianic kingdom. The prophecy predicted that the people of the prince (lit.,
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) that would come would destroy the city and the sanctuary. That took place in A.D. 70, under Titus Vespasianus. But Titus is not
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This, apart from other considerations, is clear from what follows:
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And his (the prince's) end shall be with a flood (or rather, 'in the overflowing,' _i.e._, of the wrath of God),
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Week
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the last world-emperor, and his dealings with them.
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He shall make a firm covenant with many (lit., 'the many,' _i.e._, the great majority of the nation) for one week (v. 27). This covenant is described in Isaiah's prophecies as a
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and an
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The covenant, he says,
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and the agreement
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(Isa. 28. 18). That this refers to a time yet future and not to past Israelitic history may be gathered from verse 22, where the theme and the language are similar to those of the passage in Daniel now under consideration. Daniel tells us the mode of the disannulling.
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In the midst of the week (R.V., margin) he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease.