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 1260 days is certain, because the Prophet refers it to the same date, and the same events, for its commencement, viz., the taking away of the daily sacrifice, and the setting up of the abomination of desolation. It is evident, therefore, that as it commences from the same date as the other period of 1260 days, it must extend to thirty days beyond the conclusion of that same period.

Now if we are asked to explain this apparent discrepancy in the two periods, the only reason we can assign, why in this passage it would seem as if the dominion of Antichrist were to last for thirty days, that is for thirty years longer than the other period, so often mentioned, of 1260 years, is this: when Daniel speaks of the dominion of the little horn, called in the eleventh chapter "the king that worships the God Maozim," he is speaking of the temporal empire of Mahomet, of that empire which was to arise upon the platform of the Macedonian he-goat's territory, and when he assigns to that dominion the duration of 1260 prophetic days, he is assigning that duration to the temporal dominion of Mahomet: now we have already seen, from this same prophecy of Daniel, that this empire is to be destroyed by the King of the North. When, therefore, in this twelfth chapter we find Daniel assigning