...individual who liveth, and sinneth not ? This illustrious writer, (ix. 24,) furnisheth a ready answer. " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish UKtransgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring...

...sceptre" only, but " the place and nation" of the Jews. Still more explicit is the prophet Daniel. " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and...Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to build Jerusalem, unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and three...

...doing that which is proper to itself : " yet, by reason of the unity of the person, that / Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are •determined upon thy people, and...to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint ihe most holy. Ver. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:...

...brethren. This celebrated prophecy literally translated from the Original is as follows. Dan. ix. xl, &e. " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and...to bring in everlasting righteousness, ,and to seal the vision, and propheey, and to annoint the most Holy, [ie the sauetum sauetorum, or Holy of Holies.]...

...righteousness is of God, " Surely, shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength." " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and...iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness," Dan. ix. £4. This best robe that was put upon the prodigal son, is put upon us, and if you do not...

...vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God." Daniel ix. 24, 26, " To finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity ; for this shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself." And I, said the Redeemer, if I be lifted...

...and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. 24 Seventy weeks . are determined upon thy people, and...vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going fonth of the commandment to restore and to build...

...the instar omnium of the prophetical proofs of Christianity. Thus it stands in our translation : " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and...iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and ta seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that...

...Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously ; thou shalt not be afraid of him. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and...transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconcilation for iniquity, and to bring in ever. B 13 lasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision....

...prophecy of Daniel, in regard to the Messiah. "•Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upou thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to hring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the...