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Daniels weekes an interpretation of part of the prophecy of Daniel / by Joseph Mede ...
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Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.
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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
33. that is agreeable to the received Tradition but three year and an half after his Baptisme will fall to be in the third year of the week which is wholly to be compleat Ann. Aerae Christ 37. when the 813. Anno Olymp. shall be begun and current in Septemb. Verse 26. And after the threescore and two Weeks shall MESSIAH be cut off and they none of his Wherefore the Princes people to come shall destroy the City and the Sanctuary and the end thereof shall be with a flood and unto the end of Warre desolations are determined ANd after the threescore and two Weeks shall c. That is when the Threescore and two Weeks aforesaid shall expire and be fully compleat for so the word after supposes they must be MESSIAH shall be cut off not onely from the living by the death he should suffer upon the Crosse for that was a little before but from being any longer the King and Priest of that People they refusing him to be theirs and he casting off them from being His which is the meaning of the words following {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And they none of his For {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is to be understood that so the conjunction Vau may couple similia tempora {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Et non erit ei populus ejus or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And they shall be none of His And for the Verb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that it signifies not onely a cutting off from life but also from reigning as a King or from being a Priest See for the first 1 Kings c. 2. ver. 4. chap. 9. ver. 5. 2 Chron ch. 7. ver. 16. Ier. 33. 17. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. There shall not be cut off to David a man to sit upon the throne of the House of Israel All which have reference to 2 Sam. c. 7. ver. 16. For the second cutting off from the Priesthood 1 Sam. 2. 33. to Eli And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine Altar Ier. 33. 18. Neither of the Priests the Levites {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} shall a man be cut off before me to offer burnt offerings c. and to doe Sacrifice continually The Computation and Impletion From the seventh year of Artaxerxes Mnemon at the time of the Commission granted to Ezra Anno Olympiadico 379. as is already shewed unto the fourth year after Christs Ascension Anno Olymp. 813. Aerae Christianae Dionysiacae 37. are Lxij weeks of years or 434. years fully compleat and expired The next year after was Christ divorced and cut off from the Jews and they {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} cast off from being His people which may appear thus Christ suffered upon the Crosse rose from the dead and ascended into heaven The Holy Ghost descended at Pentecost 3000. converted more added the Apostles forbidden but cease not to preach Jesus Christ So this year ends about September The number of Disciples much increased Deacons chosen and Steven one of them Act. 6. 1 2 3 c. Steven doth great wonders and miracles The Word of God and the number of Disciples increaseth so that a great company of the Priests were obedient unto the Faith The Elders and people rage and about the end of the yeare was Steven martyred Acts c. 6. ver. 7 8 9 10 11. cap. 7. ver. 1. ad finem Great persecution against the Church at Jerusalem Saul makes havock Acts c. 8. whereupon the Disciples were scattered through the Regions of Judea and Samaria every where preaching the Gospel ver. 4 5. Of whose successe the Apostles being informed send Peter and Iohn to Samaria to lay hands on the new converts ver. 14. which done and by the way preaching the Gospel in the villages of Samaria they returned againe to Jerusalem ibid. Those which were scattered upon the persecution of Steven proceed further and travelled as farre as Phoenice Cyprus and Antioch having by the way preached the Gospel to the Jews at Damascus how came they there else Cap. 11. Which Saul hearing of gets letters thither to bring those he should find there of that way unto Jerusalem But in his journey himself was miraculously converted and baptized c. Peter in the mean time was gone again from Ierusalem by Lydda unto Ioppa where he remained all this yeare at the house of Simon the Tanner The next year after Anno Aerae Christianae 38. Anno Olympiadico 813. according as was foretold That after threescore and two Weeks were ended MESSIAH should be cut off and they none of his when Christ had now one whole Week of years tendred himself unto his own people and they not onely refused him but first by crucifying the Lord himself and after that by persecuting his Messengers sent unto them had made themselves unworthy of everlasting life Peter was taught by vision that the Gospel of the Kingdome should be preached unto the Gentiles and accordingly sent to preach it to Cornelius a Centurion of the Italian band Acts 10. And here begins the Epocha of the Rejection of Israel and the Calling of the Gentiles which S. Paul speaks so much of Rom. 11. True it is the cutting off of Christ by death was before the last week was compleat but the cutting him off from being King and Priest of the Jews was not untill after it was ended Or if this cutting off here mentioned may not be extended to any other cutting off then by Death yet the other part of the copulative sense {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And they shall be none of His was not fulfilled untill the whole Week was ended Wherefore the PRINCES to come c. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Populus MESSIAE venturus i. futurus The People that should be the people of Messiah the Prince when Israel was rejected so the Hebrews call seculum futurum {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whence Mark 10. ver. 13. Luke 18. 30. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Eph. 2. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} According to which notion Apoc. 1. 4. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Vid. Psal. 71. 18. Esay 27. 6. Esay 44. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Vulgat ventura quae futura sunt Thus I construe the Text and understand by Populus principis futurus the people of the Romane Empire where Christ was principally to have his Church and Kingdome whilst Israel should be rejected Cornelius therefore the first Gentile converted was a Romane Centurion S. Paul who is called the Apostle of the Gentiles went not beyond the bounds of the Empire This was that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whereof Christ said Matth. 24. That before the Destruction of Jerusalem the Gospel should be preached {non-Roman}