Forgiveness seventy and sevenfold. Companion to two prophetical charts, the first of which illustrates the seventy weeks of Daniel ... while the second is intended to show that seventy weeks is a dispensational cycle. In the Lord's dealings with Israel, and also with man universally / by Sir Edward Denny, Bart.

Denny, Edward, Sir, 1776-1889.

Date:: [1849]

Credit: Forgiveness seventy and sevenfold. Companion to two prophetical charts, the first of which illustrates the seventy weeks of Daniel ... while the second is intended to show that seventy weeks is a dispensational cycle. In the Lord's dealings with Israel, and also with man universally / by Sir Edward Denny, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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tlie “One Week” of this prophecy will come in at the end, in order to complete the full term of seventy weeks, and at the same time to supply the place of the forfeited week. This last week of Daniel detached from the rest, being the great crisis in the history of the world, previous to the setting up of the kingdom, the period of Israelis ripened apostacy will be one of deep and awful interest, of unparalleled judgment: and between this and the forfeited week there will be a sort of moral coincidence as well as of palpable contrast, inasmuch as one was the period when the true Messiah came forth and was rejected, the other will be the time when a false Messiah will rise, and be received by the Jews as the hope of their nation. I shall, however, speak of this more at length when I reach this part of our subject. Parallel be- And now as throwing further light on this subject, and as and Elias, in proving that this is not a solitary instance of this sort of double connection fu]fijment of prophecy, I next turn to consider the testimony of weeks. John and of Elias, the forerunners of Christ at Ins first and second appearance. Their’s is, we shall find, exactly a parallel case, these prophets standing precisely as to their testimony in the same relation one to the other, that the two weeks above named do in the purpose of God. In Malachi iv. we read, in connection with the Lord’s second coming, as follows : “ Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of the Lord,” wTords which we need not say will yet be fulfilled. But in the meantime, when Christ at his first coming presented himself to his people, claim- ing their allegiance as the heir of the throne, he was preceded by one who “ in the spirit and power of Elias ” came to prepare the way of the Lord, to make his paths strait. Of him it was that the Lord said, “ If ye will receive it, this is Elias which was for to come.” It was all a contingency, it depended on this—had John been received, (his reception involving that too of him to whom he came to bear witness,) he would have really proved what he ostensibly was, the harbinger of the kingdom—the very Elias— and no other would then have been needed to announce the coming glory of Christ, which would in that case even then have been revealed. But John and his testimony, as in the case of Jesus himself, have been alike set at nought; and hence the Elias

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