as an event that would immediately succeed the fall of which in later years could no longer be the expectation as this immediate of the two ia not so expressly made by it has been supposed that this gives the as it was modified by experience that the s advent and the end of the world had iu followed close on the destruction of f in opposition to these two opinions that the prophecy in question had a supernatural source and tiiat it was only made after the issue it is sought in a third to show that what is predicted might really have known in a natural way j on the one hand it is held in highest degree astonishing that the result should so closely with the most minute features of prophecy of on tlie other there are by this correspondence is called in question the of with armies say they ia precisely what according to impossible to be � it ia predicted that a x po would be cast about the city while us that after the first attempt at forming an x f had been rendered useless by an act of on the part of from his scheme of false arising in the interval between the death of and the destruction of history says nothing the among nations and the natural phenomena in that i are far from being so as they are here represented but above all in these especially as they are given in and mark it is not the destruction of which ia but solely that of the temple plain of the prophecy from the result which would not exist if a supernatural glance into the future or a poet were concerned according to these we are on wrong track in the of these in the result since it was backwards on types presented in the past tliat the looked a mass of such types was furnished by the conception of circumstances which would the advent of the and war famine and and in the heavens of manners persecution of the faithful servants of were held to be the immediate of the kingdom moreover in the there are descriptions of the � s in am x t s f f d� in n t ex e u i j s he l � in � b j v xii to army nut � my by of and tke � m other b j v xi it i the life op which and accompany tho day of the coming of xiii ff i ii ff ff iii ff iv � i ff ii xiv ff mai iii ff or wliich the kingdom of the saints dan � xii ad also expressions in inter so with our as to put it question hat the description which it gives of time of the s advent is drawn from a circle of ideas which had long been current among the jews another question i whether the feature in the picture before us the of the temple and the of as to the coming of the may also he shown to have made part of the po conception in the time of in writings we the notion that the birth of the would with tlie of the but this idea was formed after the fall of the temple in order that a fountain of consolation might spring out of the lowest depth of misery finds in daniel together with what relates to a of the of the state by the but as this is not tiie object in any of the visions in daniel might first make this interpretation alter the issue in which case it would prove nothing as to the time at nevertheless it is conceivable that in the time of the jews might attribute to the of daniel a reference to events yet future although these in fact related to a far earlier period and they might do so on the same grounds as those on which the christians of the present age still look forward to tho full of xxiv and xxv as after the fail of the kingdom made of iron mixed with clay and of the that speaks and makes war against the saints the coming of the ou of man in the clouds and the of the everlasting kingdom of the saints is while this result had not by any means succeeded the defeat of there was an still to look to the future not only for the heavenly kingdom but also since they were immediately to it for the caused by the kingdom � s ms it � s � t s f x x xi after having interpreted little horn of he briefly add n tame manner d a � j that be made � them di i s sup x d the iron dan li represented the i to it k over the earth he explains its the at still ant x x i declare the meaning n ihe to the king but i not think proper to it i have undertaken or things but nut t future now d n ii tlie to the heavenly which would destroy the iron one but would endure fur ever � a particular on which does not choose to but interpreted the iron legs of the image signify tbe n empire and the feet of iron mixed with the empire which out of lee de in n t ii op on his advent g ot iron and clay among which by witli what as predicted of tlie horn the of tlie temple was conspicuous while tiie prophecy in daniel only the of the temple and interruption of the worship together with the partial destruction of the city in the discourse before us complete destruction is predicted to the temple � and likewise to tlie city not merely in where the expressions are very marked but in the two other also as 