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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was announced under a form which partially veiled its meaning; so that, while unintelligible till events began to explain it, it might afterwards, as the time drew nigh, be clearly interpreted on principles drawn from Scripture itself. This assumption is in complete harmony with the two previous facts, and with the actual length of the prophetic period. It is also strongly confirmed by the analogy of the seventy weeks of Daniel, which occupy about three-fourths of the space between Cyrus and the fall of the second temple. From these two facts, and this one postulate, it would plainly result? First, that this figurative sense of the 1$60 days, even if true, could not possibly be received in the Church till the close of the twelfth century, or within one generation from the close of the period, supposing its commencement to be dated from the birth of Christ. To ante-date it still further? would be manifestly absurd? though natural enough up to this limit. Secondly, that for three centuries, at least, after its appearance, the notion could only be held vaguely and partially, and rather as a floating suspicion than a fixed doctrine; because, for three centuries after Christ, there would be no events answering to those by which the prophecy describes and marks out the commencement of this period. Thirdly, that after this time the mystical exposition would be held with greater consistency and firmness; because its commencement might be placed in times of plain corruption and partial apostasy in the Church, without its close becoming so distant as to destroy, instead of sustaining, the expectation of our Lord's speedy return. Still we might infer from the first maxim that there would be repeated anticipations of the true date. Now such are the precise facts which history p...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217720762
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217720765
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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