the last prophecy of Daniel is a key to this general mystery. 3. That the chronologic days and times are a key to this vision. 4. That these days and times are to be understood by the wise only, and in such an age as ours. 5. That scripture allows a day to symbolize a year, but does not specify what kind of a year is to be understood. 6. That its exact and intended meaning can be known only by a realization of some one of the meanings which may be legitimately attributed to the term day. 7. That any meaning is legitimate which is not opposed to the context, nor to the nature of things, prior to fulfillment. 8. The only prophecy, containing symbolic chronology, which, being fulfilled, enables us, thereby, to determine the exact solar time symbolized by prophetic days, is that of the "seventy weeks." 9. The seventy weeks may be legitimately esteemed as "abbreviated or cut short weeks," expressing only labor time, to which proportional Hebrew rest time may be added, to obtain the full time they represent. 10. The time, thus obtained, may be considered as symbolic of Hebrew years of years of 364 or 366 parts each, and these may or may not be reduced to solar time; or the time obtained by these additions may be considered as true solar time, and not symbolic. 11. That we obtained by either of these modes of computation, 483 years and 250 days; 522 years and 326 days; 564 years and 109 days; and 603 years and 129 days, as legitimate meanings of the 70 weeks. 12. That the 70 weeks were fulfilled in four ways, and in four lengths, exactly coinciding with these legitimate, a priori, expositions, thus demonstrating that they were the exact lengths of the 70 weeks, or 490 days, intended to be taught by inspiration. The conclusion is, therefore, that knowing the mode in which God has, by fulfillment, explained the length of symbolic weeks and days, we have a key to the days and years of Daniel's last vision, and also of that entire vision, and of all its collaterals, whether delivered by Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel or St. John. If there is no mistake in the whole argument, and we think no serious one can be found, then

our interpretations are of the utmost utility to our country, To all commercial, agricultural, manufacturing, legislative, mechanical and Christian interests, they are of incalculable importance, and especially to warn our country against that great war of Armageddon, or "battle of the great day of God Almighty," which is so near us. now apply our principles to certain dark historical features of the Bible, and finding in their explanation a confirmation of our theory, we proceed to explain all the symbolic chronology of Daniel and Revelation.

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SECTION VIII.

FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY AND FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTI YEARS.

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FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS.

Moses and Paul say it was 430 years from the covenant with Abraham to the law, or exodus. But if we look back to the detailed account of this same period, we see that it was much longer than 430 years. For God assured Abram, at the making of the covenant, that his seed should be in bondage, in a strange land, for 400 years. Now, Jacob was 130 years old at the descent into the land of bondage, and Isaac was 60 years old at Jacob's birth. Now, these together, make 590 years. But the covenant was several years earlier than this, as it was just before the birth of Ishmael, (see Gen. 15th ch.); and Ishmael was 13 years old at the birth of Isaac.

As these years are given in round numbers, there is, doubtless, a little excess over the true solar time, for it was customary with the ancients to call a part of a year

a whole year. So, that Jacob's being born when Isaac was sixty, might be when he was in his sixtieth year. The whole amount can not rationally exceed 604 solar years, and was, doubtless, somewhere between 603 and 604 years. Now, we have seen, that 430 years is one form of the 70 weeks, and that 70 weeks were just equal to 603 years and 129 days. The 430 years, and the detailed chronology of the same period, are thus reconciled by our mode of exposition, and can not be satisfactorily explained in any other.

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FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YEARS.

In I. Kings vi., it is stated that the foundation of Solomon's temple was laid in the 480th year after the exodus from Egypt, and in Solomon's fourth year. Josephus says, the period was 592 years long, but his detailed accounts vary a little from this aggregate. St. Paul says, the judges continued for 450 years; and after them David and Saul reigned, each 40 years, and Solomon 3, to the time of the foundation. These together, make 533 years, to which must be added the 40 years in the wilderness, making 573; to this must be added the days of Joshua and Samuel; these are reckoned, by some, to amount to 30 years; so that all taken together, will amount to 603 years.

Now, we have seen that 480 years was one form of the 70 weeks, which we know to equal 603 years. These explanations of these two periods are confirmatory of the correctness of our principles of interpretation. We could proceed, also, to show that all the great eras of the Hebrews are measured by some form of the lengths of the seventy weeks or Sabbatic weeks of years.

CHAPTER II.

DAYS, YEARS, MONTHS, AND TIMES.

HAVING ascertained the principles by which symbolic time is to be estimated, we proceed to apply them to the great prophetic periods predicted in the books of Daniel and Revelation.

SECTION I.

TWELVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS.

In the eleventh chapter of Revelation, it is said that the two witnesses shall prophesy, clothed in sackcloth, for 1260 days; and in the twelfth chapter, it is said, the woman fled into the wilderness, with twelve stars upon her head, for 1260 days. That the two witnesses, and the woman, and stars coincide, no one can doubt; and their period of humiliation, in each case, being the same, the 1260 days of each must begin at the same points, and end in the same. That their beginning is at churck and state union, we have already shown. We have seen, also, that this union is to date from the 19th of June, 325, at the Council of Nice; and, also, that the revision of the law completing this union, in detail, took place under Justinian, somewhere between 529 and 534, A. D. We saw, also, that the 70 weeks had two double modes of fulfillment; one set of modes being spiritual, and the other secular. We may also anticipate the same kind of twice double fulfillment, in the 1260 days. We shall proceed now to ascertain both kinds.

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TWELVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS-SPIRITUAL LENGTHS.

1. As 490, or 70 weeks, equal 564 years and 109 days, 1260 days, or 180 weeks, will equal 529,984 days, or 1451 years and 17 days. Now, from the beginning of church and state union, June 19th, 325, down to the beginning of the disunion of church and state, at the rise of the United States, July 4th, 1776, was just exactly 529,984 days. And, as the humiliation of the woman and witnesses was to be during this union, and was also to be for 529,984 days, the coincidence is mathematically perfect. Nothing could be a more perfect demonstration of a fulfillment of a prophecy, than that here given. In this computation, it must be remembered, that the year 1776 was a leap year, and that there is a difference of about six hours between the meridian of Nice and the United States; and, also, that a part of a day, by Hebrew measure, is taken as a whole one. The 19th of June, 325 is, also, to be included. We estimate by true solar time, or 315,659,277 tenth seconds to the solar year.

2. As 70 weeks were also equal to 483 years and 250 days, or 176,661 days, 1260 days, or 180 weeks are equal to 1243 years and 267 days. If, now, we subtract this from July 4th, 1776, we are carried back to 532 A. D., and 274th day, or 1st of October. This is as near the date of the framing of the empire church laws, by Justinian, as can possibly be estimated from the knowledge we have of history. If some European scholars would search and look, doubtless, our exposition here would be found to coincide with the events exactly to a day, as it does in our previous exposition of the 1260 days.