“6. _The connection between the 70 weeks and 2300 Days._—This was a _vital_ point in the chronology of Mr. M. to bring the end in 1843. The Rev. William Hales, D. D., the most learned modern chronologer, says: ‘This simple and ingenious adjustment of the chronology of the seventy weeks, considered as forming a branch of the 2300 days, was originally due to the sagacity of Hans Wood, Esq., of Rossmead, in the county of Westmeath, Ireland, and published by him in an anonymous commentary on the Revelation of St. John, Lon., 1787.’—_New Anal. Chro._, vol. 2, p. 564. He elsewhere calls it ‘the most ingenious of its class.’ “The argument which Mr. Miller used in support of this point was based upon the literal meaning of the Hebrew word, which, in our version of Daniel 9:24, is rendered ‘determined’—_cut off_, or _cut out_,—and the circumstances in which Gabriel appeared to Daniel, as stated in the ninth chapter, with the instruction given. “In the 8th chapter of Daniel is recorded a vision which was to extend to the cleansing of the sanctuary, and to continue 2300 days. Daniel had ‘sought for the meaning’ of that vision, and a voice said: “Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.” Gabriel said to Daniel: ‘I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation; for, at the time appointed, the end shall be;’ and then proceeded to explain the symbols, but said nothing of their duration. At the close of the explanation Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; and he says he ‘was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.’ “Three years subsequent to that vision, Daniel—understanding ‘by books the number of years whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem,’—set his face unto the Lord to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. He proceeded to confess his own sins and the sins of his people, and to supplicate the Lord’s favor on the sanctuary that was desolate. While he was thus speaking, Daniel says:—‘Gabriel, whom I had seen in _the vision_ at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation; and he informed me, and talked with me, and said: ‘O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore understand the matter and consider _the vision_. Seventy weeks are _determined_’ &c. ‘From the going forth of the decree to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince:’—after which Jerusalem was to be made desolate ‘until the consummation.’—Dan. 9:20-27. “Dr. Gill, a distinguished divine and scholar, rendered the word ‘determined,’ _cut off_, and is sustained by good scholars.