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 surpassing blessedness. " is he that waiteth and cometh unto a thousand three hundred and thirty-five days."—(Dan. xii. 12.)

This text brings us to a period of seventy-five days or years beyond the expiration of the 1260 days. Now dating the commencement of the latter (the 1260 days) from the commencement of Mahomet's empire, which is dated from his famous flight called the Hegira, which is the Mahometan era, and which is commonly placed by chronologists about the year 622 after Christ, the conclusion of the 1260 years would be somewhere about the year 1882. But then it appears to me probable that these 1260 years are prophetic periods of 360, not 865 days each (for 1260 days are the sum of three prophetic periods and a half, consisting of 360 days each), consequently, if we deduct five days from each of the 1260 years, it would shorten the whole period by a sum of 6300 days, which would be equal to seventeen years of 360 days each, and 180 days besides, or exactly half a year of the same length: in other words, it would shorten the whole period of 1260 natural years by a period of seventeen years and a half of prophetic years; or if you divide the sum of 6300 days by 365 days (one natural year) it would amount to about seventeen natural years and ninety-five days.