Re: translation of Daniel 9:26
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:21 am
Steve Miller wrote:
Daniel says in 9:24: "Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city." It evidently took seven weeks (49 years) to restore and build the Jerusalem. And it took 62 more weeks before Messiah, the Leader, would appear. Then there was one more week, and in the middle of this week sacrifice and gift offering would cease.(In order to avoid theology I will not give my opinion on the meaning of this.) However, we should note that the period of 70 weeks is one thing, and the ceasing of sacrifice and gift offering is something completely different, This means that the ceasing of sacrifice and gift offering does not break any covenant. But it is an event that occurs in the middle of the 70th week.
I would like to add one chronological comment: The "issuing of the word to restore and build Jerusalam" can be connected with the 20th year of Artaxerxes I (Nehemiah 2:1-6). It is an almost universal view that this year is 445 BCE. I refer in my book to several astronomical cuneiform tablets, which indicates that the 20th year of Artaxerxes I is 455 BCE. This means that that start of the 70th week is the year 29 CE, the middle of this week is 33 CE, and the end of the 70 weeks is 36 CE.
Best regards,
Rolf
Dear Steve,Rolf,
Your translation says that the leader will let the covenant prevail for 1 week rather than confirm a convenant for 1 week.
How can he let the covenant to prevail for 1 week, but in the middle of the week he breaks the covenant?
Then he did not let the covenant prevail for a week.
Daniel says in 9:24: "Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city." It evidently took seven weeks (49 years) to restore and build the Jerusalem. And it took 62 more weeks before Messiah, the Leader, would appear. Then there was one more week, and in the middle of this week sacrifice and gift offering would cease.(In order to avoid theology I will not give my opinion on the meaning of this.) However, we should note that the period of 70 weeks is one thing, and the ceasing of sacrifice and gift offering is something completely different, This means that the ceasing of sacrifice and gift offering does not break any covenant. But it is an event that occurs in the middle of the 70th week.
I would like to add one chronological comment: The "issuing of the word to restore and build Jerusalam" can be connected with the 20th year of Artaxerxes I (Nehemiah 2:1-6). It is an almost universal view that this year is 445 BCE. I refer in my book to several astronomical cuneiform tablets, which indicates that the 20th year of Artaxerxes I is 455 BCE. This means that that start of the 70th week is the year 29 CE, the middle of this week is 33 CE, and the end of the 70 weeks is 36 CE.
Best regards,
Rolf