Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . oly ; it is applied often in the Scriptures to the inner sanctuary, or theportion of the tabernacle and temple containing the ark of the covenant,the two tables of stone, etc. It is not necessarily limited to the innersanctuary of the temple, but may be applied to the whole have supposed that this refers to the Messiah himself, and thatthe meaning is that he who was most holy would then be consecrated, oranointed, as the Messiah. It is probable, as Hengstenberg (, 321, 322) has shown, that the Greek translators thus understood
Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . oly ; it is applied often in the Scriptures to the inner sanctuary, or theportion of the tabernacle and temple containing the ark of the covenant,the two tables of stone, etc. It is not necessarily limited to the innersanctuary of the temple, but may be applied to the whole have supposed that this refers to the Messiah himself, and thatthe meaning is that he who was most holy would then be consecrated, oranointed, as the Messiah. It is probable, as Hengstenberg (, 321, 322) has shown, that the Greek translators thus understood it,but it is a sufficient objection to this that the phrase, though occurringmany times in the Scriptures, is never applied to persons, unless this bean instance. It seems to me, therefore, that the obvious and fair in-terpretation is, to refer it to the temple. An understanding of the subject of the heavenly sanctuary wouldhave relieved this scripture of the perplexity in which, in the minds ofsome expositors, it seems to be Vekse 1. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was re-vealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar ; and the thingwas true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing,and had understanding of the vision. ^=pjp/HIS verse introduces us to the last of the recorded visions^11 of the prophet Daniel, the instruction imparted to him%J;^ at this time being continued through chapters 11 and12, to the close of the book. The third year of Cyrus wasB. c. 531. Six years had consequently elapsed since Danielsvision of the four beasts in the first year of Belshazzar,B. c. 540 ; four years since the vision of the ram, he-goat,little horn, and 2300 days of chapter 8, in the third yearof Belshazzar, b. c. 538; and four years since the instructiongiven to Daniel respecting the seventy weeks, in the firstyear of Darius, b. c. 538, as recorded in chapter 9. Onthe overthrow of the kingdom of Babylon by the Persians, b
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