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period of deliverance may not be far removed. Daniel says[1], "I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and an half[2]; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished."
- ↑ Chap. xii. 7.
- ↑ "We must compute the time according to the nature and genius of the prophetic language, A time, then, and times, and half a time, are three years and a half; and the ancient Jewish year, consisting of twelve months, and each month of thirty days, a time and times and half a time, or three years and a half, are reckoned in the Revelations (chap. xi. 2, 3, and xii. 6. 14.) as equivalent to forty and two months, or a thousand two hundred and threescore days: and a day in the style of the Prophets is a year. 'I have appointed thee each day for a year,' saith God to Ezekiel, (chap. iv. 6.); and it is confessed that the seventy weeks, in the ninth chapter of Daniel, are weeks of years; and, consequently, 1260 days are 1260 years, So long Anti-Christ, or the little horn, will continue; but from what point of time the commencement of these 1260 years is to be dated, is not so easy to determine."—(Bishop Newton's Disc. vol. i.)
