met with in building: and to the shortness of the time in which they
finished the wall, viz., fifty-two days.

9:26. And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people
that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader,
that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end
thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed
desolation.

A people with their leader... The Romans under Titus.

9:27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in
the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there
shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation
shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.

In the half of the week... or, in the middle of the week, etc. Because
Christ preached three years and a half: and then by his sacrifice upon
the cross abolished all the sacrifices of the law.-Ibid. The abomination
of desolation... Some understand this of the profanation of the temple
by the crimes of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots.
Others of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standard of the pagan
Romans. Others, in fine, distinguish three different times of
desolation: viz., that under Antiochus; that when the temple was
destroyed by the Romans; and the last near the end of the world under
Antichrist. To all which, as they suppose, this prophecy may have a
relation.

Daniel Chapter 10

Daniel having humbled himself by fasting and penance seeth a vision,
with which he is much terrified; but he is comforted by an angel.

10:1. In the third year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, a word was
revealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltassar, and a true word, and great
strength: and he understood the word: for there is need of understanding
in a vision.

10:2. In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of three weeks.

10:3. I ate no desirable bread, and neither flesh, nor wine, entered
into my mouth, neither was I anointed with ointment: till the days of
three weeks were accomplished.

10:4. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the
great river, which is the Tigris.

10:5. And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and behold a man clothed in
linen, and his loins were girded with the finest gold:

10:6. And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the
appearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms,
and all downward even to the