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That 70. weekes doe neither signifie weekes, as a weeke importeth seuen daies; neither yet 70. weekes only, as weekes [ 1] be taken for yeares; I prooue sundry waies: First, because an
angel needed not to haue been sent from heauen to instruct Da∣niel, if the 70. weekes had no mysticall nor secret meaning far aboue the common and literall signification of the wordes. Se∣condly, because the vision which Daniel had, and which the an∣gel [ 2] came to expound, conteined the duration of the second and third monarchies (as appeareth in the eight of Daniel.) Which farre exceedeth both the number of 70. weekes and 70 yeares. Thirdly, because Gods mercie doth seuen fold exceed his iudg∣ment; [ 3] which mercy he promiseth to his people, who were 70. yeares in captiuitie; and that it shalbe accomplished in the ad∣uent of the true Messias Christ Iesus: By whom and through whom, wickednesse shall be finished, sinnes sealed vp, iniquitie reconciled, and our righteousnesse purchased euerlastingly. Fourthly, because no other interpretation of the 70. weeks, can [ 4] possibly accord the wordes of Daniel. Fiftly, because albeit S. Hierome, Clemens Alexandrinus, Tertullianus, Africanus, [ 5] and others, doe muche dissent in determining the beginning of the 70. weekes; that is, in what yeare of what king we must beginne the supputation; yet doe they all iumpe in the significa∣tion of the 70. weeks, as who al do constantly write that they connotate, 490. yeares. Sixtly, because the supputation of e∣uerie writer, bringeth vs to Christ,* 1.1 which is the scope intended [ 6] and plainly expressed in Daniel, and consequently no other ex∣position can be true. Obserue well the second section.
From the capti¦uitie to Christ. 490. yeares.