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A70569	Daniels weekes an interpretation of part of the prophecy of Daniel / by Joseph Mede ...	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.	1643 (1643)	Wing M1595; ESTC R9174	20,270	55

affirm let others judge I propound it to the consideration of the learned who can do it without whose approbation I shall not satisfie my self Yet thus much I am sure of that if this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which we are wont to translate seven weeks could be well bestowed the chiefest difficulty were taken from this Prophecy For the Threescore and two Weeks alone counted from the Epocha here named so well befits the distance from thence to CHRIST that the event seemeth to argue that they should be there fixed and not reckoned from any other Beginning Moreover that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} should be a generall expression of what in the Lxij Weeks is after more particularly determined may seem probable for these reasons 1. Because the Angel ascribes no proper event unto them but having presently named the Lxij Weeks makes no farther reckoning of those other but follows and dwels upon these only as though the other were implied and contained in them 2. Those who count them for Xlix. years and continue the Lxij Weeks from the end of them to make up Lxix Weeks in all can give no sufficient reason why they should be thus separated and divided asunder For that which the followers of Funccius who reckon from Artaxerxes Longiman assign to be done in seven Weeks of years to wit that during all that time Jerusalem with the rest of the Cities of Judah were building and repairing is grounded neither upon Scripture nor other Story but pure and meer conjecture Scaliger finds Nehem. cap. 13. 6. That Nehemiah returned again to Artaxerxes his Court in the 32. year of his raign and thence supposeth that the building of the City about which he was sent was finished but the year before and that to be the determination of those seven Weeks there being then 49. years expired from the time the Lxx. began at the Building of the Temple under Darius Nothus But to make this good he is fain to raise the Epocha of the Lxx. so high in the raign of Darius that they end before the destruction of Jerusalem Besides he seems not to be aware that these seven Weeks are by the Text to be counted from a time when a Commission came out to cause to return and to build Jerusalem and not from the time of building the Temple Nor does it follow Nehemiah staid so long there therefore the City was till then in building Nay what if the Text rightly construed imports not that Nehemiah in the 32. year of Artaxerxes returned to the Court but rather that obtaining new leave of the King he came then to Jerusalem the second time whence he had been long absent For the particle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cap. 13. ver. 6. seems not to be taken rationally for Quia but discretively for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} id est Sed But as Ezra 4. 3. 2 Sam. 16. 18. Gen. 4. 8. and so that Text of Nehemiah to be read after this sense And in all this time saith he I was not there But in the 32. yeare of Artaxerxes c. I came to the King that is into his presence to ask new leave which after a little waiting he obtained Nor is it very credible that the time he first set the King cap. 2. ver. 6. should be twelve years If therefore {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be granted to be a generall expression of what the Lxij Weeks more particularly determine the way whereby it may be translated to such a sense is as I have before represented yet is it not the only one I can adde two wayes more as first this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} seven useth we know to be taken indefinitely for plurimi multoties c. Thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} would without any anomaly or novelty at all signifie indefinitely Many Weeks if it might seem probable that in a passage of reckoning by definite numbers some numerall word may be taken indefinitely The sense would be all one with that I have followed viz. As the whole time limited for the continuance of the Holy City consisted of many Weeks even Lxx. Weeks So also this lesser period contained therein from the Epocha mentioned unto MESSIAH shall be a time of Many Weeks even Lxij Weeks Another way were it not somewhat harsh might be this The Hebrew Nouns of Cardinall numbers do somtimes substantivare signifying their numbers in abstracto like those Greek Numeralls Monas Dyas Trias Tetras Hebdomas So Gen. cap. 7. 10. cap. 8. 12. we have {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. hebdomas dierum Exod. 34. 29. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Decas verborum Decalogus Gen. 17. 12. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Filus ogdoadis dierum Ioshua 14. 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Novenarius or Enneas tribuum If they be Substantives in statu constructo were they not or may they not be so in absoluto In the third Chapter and 29. ver. of Damel {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in absoluto seems to be a Substantive having an Adjective joyned with it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which we translate one seven times If this therefore may be admitted {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in our Text of Daniel will sound per Ellipsin conjunctionis Hebdomades Hebdomas Weeks and a Week the sense being all one with the former saving that one Week is implied as singular from the rest which may be that which the Angel afterward mentions ver. 27. If it were pointed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as by the consonants it might be there would be no great question but it might be translated Weeks and a Week But if {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} must needs import some limited time of 49. years I would rather choose to count the Lxij Weeks from the same Epocha with them under Artaxerxes Mnemon then from the end of them and yet leave as probable a conjecture to be made of what was done in them as those who follow Funccius from the other Artaxerxes do use to give I have sometimes considered whether if it be translated seven Weeks those seven Weeks might not be applyed as rotundus numerus to those Fifty and two dayes Nehem. 6. 15. where it is said So the Wall was finished in the 25. day of the Moneth Elul in fifty two dayes somewhat more indeed then seven Weeks yet short of seven an half and so not regarded in accompt by Weeks If this could be then the reason of the Angels division of weeks into 7. and 62. would be because of divers kinds of Weeks understood the first of dayes wherein the Wall of Jerusalem should be finished the second of years from thence unto the Messiah If it

seem impossible or unlikely that the Wall of the City should be repaired in so short a time and therefore those words according to Iunius to be meant of setting up the doors and bars only I could say first that the Wall was not new builded from the foundations but repaired upon the old ruines Secondly the speedy dispatch thereof was taken for a wonder even by the Jews Enemies who thereupon saith the Text perceived it was the hand of their God So that were there no worse scruple then this it were easily answered nor would examples * be wanting to parallel with it such as might make it seem at least possible As that strange and speedy building of the Walls of Athens by Themistocles after that Xerxes had demolished them reported by Diodor. Sic. lib. 11. Yea to come more near to the thing in question Iosephus lib. 6. c. 13. De Bell. Iud. tells us That Titus dividing the work amongst his Army begirt Ierusalem in three dayes space with a Wall of thirty nine Furlongs and thirteen Bulwarks to hinder the Jews excursions from within and all relief from without What the materials were I know not but he sayes it was a thing beyond all belief and might have seemed to be a work of some Moneths But leaving this digression let us see the computation and impletion of our Lxij Weeks The Computation and impletion of the Lxij Weeks FRom the seventh yeare of Artaxerxes Mnemon when Ezra had Commission to cause to Return and carry with him as many of the Jews as would to Jerusalem Ezra c. 7. ver. 7. 13. And from the twentieth year of the same Artaxerxes when Nehemiah obtained leave to build Jerusalem the City of his Fathers Sepulchres Nehem. 2. From both these Commissions though thirteen years distant the one from the other are by divine disposition unto MESSIAH the PRINCE threescore and two Weeks from the first of Solar from the latter of Lunar years For Lxij weeks or 434. Lunar years are lesse then so many Solar as much as is between the seventh and twentieth of Artaxerxes which admirable concordance I cannot impute to chance but ascribe to divine providence so ordering it of purpose that these two Epocha's and Commissions To cause to Return and To build Ierusalem might be as one and the same And as the Lunar year is contained within the Solar and by it ordered and directed so is the Period here from Nehemiahs Commission to Build the City contained and reduced to that from Ezraes Commission to cause the people to return In the last of these Weeks according to prediction was Christ our Lord anointed In the beginning whereof exactly between the first and second Passeover after his Baptisme when his Harbinger Iohn had now finished his Message and was cast in Prison a time precisely and purposely noted in the Evangelicall Story he first began to preach in Galilee the Gospel of the Kingdome ordained his Apostles and proclaimed himselfe to be the MESSIAH After Iohn was put in Prison saith Mark 1. 14. Iesus come into Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome of God and saying {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The time is fulfilled i. the last week of the sixty two weeks is come and the Kingdome of God is at hand From that time saith Matthew c. 4. 17. Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand This was that day whereof Christ himself said at Nazareth that that Scripture was fulfilled The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poore c. and to preach the acceptable yeare of the Lord Luke 4. This the time and place whence S. Peter reckoned the beginning of Christs Prophecy in his Sermon to Cornelius That word saith he which was published throughout all Iudea and began from Galilee after the Baptisme which Iohn preached c. Acts 10. 37. In the third year of this Week two years and an half after he began his Prophecy and three years and an half after his Baptisme being made our Priest he offered himself upon the Crosse a Sacrifice for sinne was dead buried and rose again Then ascended up into heaven to be installed and to sit at the right hand of God from thenceforth to raigne untill he hath put all his Enemies under his feet But you will say This was all performed four years before the 434. years which is sixty two Weeks of years were expired I answer as before The Angell reckons not by single yeares but by Weeks the last whereof should be Messiahs Week as we have shewed it to have been If the Angel had said There shall be 434. years unto MESSIAH then to make good the prediction MESSIAH must have been anointed the last yeare But when he sayes There shall be Sixty two Weeks unto MESSIAH it is sufficient he was anointed the last Week But how this Week will at length be compleat we shall see in the next verse But first let us demonstrate our Computation Ezra's Commission Darius Nothus died saith Diodor. lib. 13. in the same yeare but a little while after the Composition of the Peloponesian war which was in May Olymp. 93. 4. that is An. Olymp. 372 finiente Ergo The first of Artaxerxes begins about August and concurres with Anno Olymp. 373. The seventh of Artaxerxes with Anno Olymp. 379. N. B. If Artaxerxes had began before August the number or date of his raign must have altred either in or between the first and fifth Moneth but they are both of one year Ezra 7. as also the first and the ninth Nehem. c. 1. c. 2. Christs Prophecy Christ our Lord was Baptized Anno Olympiadico 805. ineunte about the Feast of Expiations in the seventh Month Tisri six Months after Iohn began to baptize and in that year naturall and politicall which began in the 15. of Tiberius towards ending but was the 16. when he was baptized For Iohn I suppose began to preach and baptize in the first Month Nisan when the Summer was before him and not when the Winter was to enter in the 15. year of Tiberius which ended August following Now Iohns imprisonment was a year after the Baptisme of Christ namely between the first and second Passeover after it as is clear and evident by the Euangelicall Story Iohn c. 2. 23. c. 3. 22. Chap. 4. The Beginning therefore of Christs Prophecy which began at the imprisonment of Iohn Mark 1. 14. was Anno Olympiad 806. about the end I suppose of the same Month Tisri or Septemb. The beginning of Christs Prophecy An. Olymp. 806 Mens. 7. The Time of Ezra's Commission An. Olymp. 379. Mens. 7. Differentia An. 427. M. o. 61. weeks cōpleat From hence Mens. 7. begins the last week wherefore the Passion of Christ at the Passoever Mens. 1. firmly fixed by Chronologicall Characters in the 19. of Tiberius Anno Olymp. 808. Aerae Christian