Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-12-27

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teal and fguratiFe sensen about this, than
the passage just before quoted. Just show
me, brother Miller, where year is tex
planned" to mean 360years. If you cannot
your language concerning "a thousand
gears" is equally applicable to "a year,
above. Again: " To preach the acceptable
year Of the Lord - Luke iv, 10. Did this
mean simply 365 days? If not, il is "mys7
tical and fgurative,"'' and according to your
reasoning means just $50 years. But you
and / and every school-boy know that il
does not mean simply year, nor just 800,
but is indefinite, embracing, most likely, the
whole Of gospel time. Why did not the
Jews understand Jeremiah's 70 wears of
captivity to mean 20 times $50 years 3
These years were prophetic, and the Jews
knew how day was reckoned for year,
in the cases Of Ezekiel and the spies. Jer.
XIV, II. /
Leaving the words, month" and ''week"
for the present, (having in my former arti-
Gle taken up the go weeks,") let US pass
to the word day. What, in prophecy, does
this mean? You contend that it means
year. To this have already objected, and
do still object. Although you contend that !
it inrdridbly' means year, still, in VIC
lation Of such belief, you have made the
word mean -fue other different periods Of
time.
l. On page 107 you quote Rev. ii, To-
Tan Il L ~ +
prison that We may be tried, and we shall
have tribulation ten days. The devil here
you call pagan Rome. In applying this
passage to certain events you say, " How
exactly was this prophecy fulfilled in the
days of Nero, Dominican, and other Roman
emperors, and how faithful has history been
to record the ten prosecutions between the
days of Johns prophesy and the emperor
Constantine. In these ten prosecutions Of
the Roman government, in the text called
ten days." &c. Here you make ten days
mean ten prosecutions, instead of ten gears.
You well know that these ten prosecutions
lasted more than ten years, and therefore
could not reckon ebay Tor year,. But
there is Just as much reason for reckoning
3 these days so many years. as in any other
e place in The Bible. Now for your proof to
e the contrary.
:, 2. The angel says to Daniel, K, ID: " But
h the prince of the kingdom Of Persia with
e stood me one and tloenty days." &c. When
n did the angel start2 Answer: Not before
a "the first day that thou (Daniel) didst sci
.e thine heart to understand and to chasten
myself before God, thy words were hard
ID and am come for thy words" 18th verse
= When did Daniel "set his heart,"? &C.
- Answer: Just before the 40 weeks in
- struction - see chap. tx, 3. How long be-
:, fore this, was the 40 weeks instruction 2
This you answer. (page 65.) Now he (the
n. angeD is come in the third Of Cyrus th'
e. Persian, = years after the 70 week
en- instruction. Here, then, according to you
}" own showing, 81 days could not have beef
m more than 4 years; so that here you MAKE
ne day mean about one fifth of gear.
e., 3. You make a dag mean housan
60 gears. Gone day with the Lord is as
on thousand years, and thousand years is a
IN one day." 2 Pet. iii, 8. have often hear
les you say, 10 your public lectures and in pr
% vate conversation tn at the day in this lei
lat meant thousand years, or the judgmer
in which would be thousand years /; tn
nod righteous rising in the morning, (fore part
all and the wicked in the evening, (latter part
- of the day. The same day is mentioned
verse 10: "But the day Of the Lord wi
~ come as a thief in thelnight," &c. The san
v" idea is found, in part at least, on pages 80, 3
"'e 4. You use the word day to mean a
IN indefinite period. "Now am come
GUS make thee understand what shall befall th
ITS, people in the latter ddyS"-an indefni
ave time to come, according to your own shoy
ing, page SO: Again page 14S you sa
oW ''there must be one more day or little Sc
me, son of persecution" &c.
gle s. You make the word day, in prophes
Der to mean only "a hours. He (ChristJ i
ge" forms his disciples" you say, "that the d.
Id and hour Of his coming is known only
that God has never been revealed; me ana
all day and hour only" page 1875. Here
day is made to mean day, and an hour
cal mean an hour.
gels We see then, that the word, according
r an your showing, means something more tn
ear, a year. A day is the time of one per-
Rev. cution; day is about one. fifth Of yea
SCI" day is a thousand gears day is a I'll
ear, season.. and day is a DAY! And gel D
-3sl us ~" invariably TO be recko"ed'=E
aces a YEAR! liz for God hath so ordered
word pro- hets to reckon days" p. 46.
own The word hour, you use to mean, l,