Hexapla in Danielem: that is, A six-fold commentarie vpon the most diuine prophesie of Daniel wherein according to the method propounded in Hexapla vpon Genesis and Exodus, sixe things are obserued in euery chapter. 1. The argument and method. 2. The diuers readings. 3. The questions discussed. 4. Doctrines noted. 5. Controversies handled. 6. Morall observations applyed. Wherein many obscure visions, and diuine prophesies are opened, and difficult questions handled with great breuitie, perspicuitie, and varietie ... and the best interpreters both old and new are therein abridged. Diuided into two bookes ... By Andrevv Willet Professour of Diuinitie. The first booke.

Quest. 61. v. 25. The streetes shall be built againe in a troublesome time: how this was fullfilled.

1. Some doe referre this troublesome time to the 62. weeke, immediately before spoken of: which containeth 434. yeares to be counted, vnto the Messiah from the ende of the 7. weekes: and then the meaning is this, that during all the continuance of that time, the com∣monwealth of the Iewes should haue much ••••••uble: so Iun. Polan, and M. Liuely out of Saadiah giueth this sense, pag. 172. that Ierusalem beeing builded, shall continue 434. yeares before the desolation: but in that mention is made of building the streetes againe, that is, the citie, the words seeme to haue speciall reference to these troublesome times in the first 7. weekes, wherein the worke of the Temple and citie were intermitted.

2. Some by the streightnes of time, vnderstand the short time, wherein the citie was builded: for after it beganne to be reedified in the 2. yeare of Darius, it was finished in foure yeare, Hug. Cardinal. but it is shewed before, that it was from the first to the last 46. yeare in building, and therefore the 7. weekes are fingled from the rest, to note the streightnesse and troubles of those times.

3. Some hauing speciall reference vnto the 7. weekes, doe vnderstand, onely the trou∣blesome building of the citie, because they hold the Temple to haue beene built before the 7. weekes beganne, so Bullinger, Iosephus Scalliger, Osian. as mention is made, Nehem. 4.

how they built with one hand, and held their swords in the other: But seeing the building of the Temple was the principall worke, and was intermitted 46. yeares, it is not like that it should be omitted in this prophesie.

4. Wherefore by building here in a trouble some time, is vnderstood the building of the Temple and the citie: as Iunius in his commentarie, vnderstandeth the building of Ierusalem: that both of them should be in a troublesome time: So that as afterward the Angel sheweth what should happen after the 7. and 62. weekes: so here specially is intended what memora∣ble thing should befall within the compasse of these 7. weekes in the building of the Tem∣ple: and after in the building of the citie, H. Br. Concent. as also thereby is signified, that their whole state should remaine troublesome still, as the booke of the Macchabees sheweth, Lyran. that they should not looke for any perfect outward estate, but be stirred vp to looke for their spirituall redemption by the Messiah.