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 unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days."

" is he that waiteth, and cometh unto a thousand three hundred and thirty-five days."—(Daniel xii. 7–12.)

In these verses we have the same period predicted, that we have already remarked in other prophecies both of Daniel and of St. John: "A time, and times, and half a time." And then a little after we have another statement, that from the time of the taking away of the daily sacrifice, and the setting up of the abomination of desolation, there should be a period of "a thousand two hundred and ninety days." While the prophecy winds up with pronouncing a blessing upon the man, that waiteth to the third period of "a thousand three hundred and thirty-five days."

The first of these periods, "a time, times, and half a time," we have already seen elsewhere reduced to a corresponding period of twelve hundred and sixty days; and we have already shown how we understand that period; that period we have explained to signify twelve hundred and sixty years, during which the Mahometan empire is to continue. But here we find also a second period named, somewhat longer, "twelve hundred and ninety days." That this period includes the former one of