New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-02

fined to 8 natural day. have examined the be
brew OF each of the other passages where 1t IS &C
uitted we are TO understand prophetical day. or
year. In Ezekiel, 4: 6, (" have appointed thee
| each dav for YEAR the word is vor, (day) ana
in Dan. p: II, "a thousand TWO hundred and
ninety days ~ and verse IL, I" the thousand three
hundred and FIVE and thirty days, the word Is
vcmi0, (days, the plural ot yom, usedi Ezeklei:
Now it seems to me that the Holy Spirit aad
some design in avoiding this ward IN The Predic-
tion of the $500 days. and using the m7haiie com
pound word a-rap boxer, (i.e. erening morning
/ snl hat this design expressly TO conhne tie
meaning 70 natural DAYS al!uding to the Two dl'r
sions Of evening and morning; the first evening
among the Jews beginning at Il al noon, and me
morning ending a, the same hour; and also aud-
ing 10 the evening and morning daily sacrlhces.-
! Bishep Newton says. " In the Original It's, Into
.2ro thousand three hpaarsd eren;ugs and morn
incs and in al!lsicn 10 this expression, II is said
afterwards. V 26) f" TIE risioR o. The ersatng
end morning is true" In order to understand
The meaning Of the question TO which these words
are the answer we are TO remember that for many
hundred wears the Jews had offered up burnt OF
fering, consisting OF lamb every morning, az the
third hour, aad every evening, AT The ninth hosr ,
and this was called the perpetual o. datly sdcra-
fee.
Now the qucstios was, " Fer ho,o long time
shall The vision last, the daily sacrifice De taSen
amag." Sc (Lowths transiaion.) The an.
swer was, /" Unto tro thouscnd three hundred
mornings and srenlags.
| understand the reply TO ailude to the number
of daily burnt offerings, including both morning
and eveliag sacrifices, which should be omitted
through the-violence and cruelty OF this KING OF
fierce coun,enance," Antochus Epiphanes As
there were two sacrifices each day, the number OF
DAYS would be ll50 days, or three years and nearly
two months.
sEc7IoS vI.-Tlis t:me fulfAsaia ne duration
or the prosecutions Of Antiochus Epfph ansS,
at Jerusalem.
Now le, US inquire whether the timo during
which the daily sacrifices taken away did
actually agree with this prediction, thus under
stoed.
Or. Prideaux informs US that in the year b. Z
| l6G, when Anfiochus had issued a decree ce'n-
nandiDg all his subjects conform TO his own re-
Iigion he sent into Judea and Samaria one Athe-
r;eu., an old man, who being we'll vrrsed in all the
rites OF the Grecian Idolatry was thought very
proper person TO initiate those people into the OBJ
seryance Of them. Ga his coming to Jerusalem and
ifere executing his commission, all sac1ifceS to
The God Of Israei were made 10 cease, ali the OBJ
servances of the Jewish religion were suppressed,
and the temple itself was polluted and made unfit
for Gods worship. The Syrian soldiers under
this overseer were the chief missionaries, and by
| them this conversion of the Jews to the king IS
ligion was effected. Having thus expelled the
Jewish worship out of the temple, they introduced
the beahen in its stead, and consecrated the tenn
pie ,c the worship of the chief OF their false gods.
Jupiter Olympus, erected his image upon one part
OF the ellar of holocaust, and upon another part,
,I,o. ,1
tar, whereon they sacrificed to him.
This imcge was erected on the 18th day Of the
month Caseu, answering partly tn November and
partly to December,) and on the 25tn of the same
month they there began their sacrifices to Jupiter
(See Maccabecs, |: 54 $50
Erac,lv three years from this time, when Ju
das Maccabaus had conquered and expelled the
soldiers cf Aniochus, the pieus Jews having puri-
fled the temple, and made new altar of incense,
solemnlv dedicated the temple anew to the wor
ship of Jehovah on the 25th of the month Casleu,
see [. Mac. A: SD the very same on which,
three wears before. the sacrifices to Jupiter had
commenced.
The half Of 1900 days we have seen, is
three years and j5 days. We are net informed
by any historian exactly now many days elapsed
| between the time when AthenGus stopped the
tai,v sacrifices, and the 25th of the month Caseu,
when Jupiter was worshiped in the temple. Had
we been thus informed, have no doubt that VIC
should find that time to be exactly 50 days; and
thus that Z" The daily sacrifice was taken away Tor
1900 evening and morning offerings, and the wor-
ship OF Jehovah in bis temple abolished for ll5O
days, or three years and So days
The account given by the author of the Macca-
bees of the feelings Of the patriotic Jewish army,
when after their victory they behed their much
,oved temple is beautiful and affecting, Q Macca-
bees, 4: Sc Then, said Judas and his bre,h-
ren. behold our enemies are discounted let us go
10 TO cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary Upon
this ali the host assembled themselves together,
and wen, UP into Mount Zion. And when they
saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned,
and the gates burnt up, and shrubs growing in the
courts as in forest or in one of the mountains,
yea and the priests; chamber pulled down, they
rent their clothes ard made great lanentation and
cast ashes upon their heads and fell down fat TO
the ground upon ;her faces
Their patriotic and pous JOY when they re.
dedicated the house of their God. is no less beeu-
tfuty described ,-(verses 50 to So
.Now on the fifth ana twentieth day the ninth month
hic called the month Caseu, they up beines
the n,nrni.g offered sacrifices according law,
upon the OF burnto.rngs which tey had Made.
Look what TIRE and what day tue tcaihen had pro-
famed il, 10 that was IL dedicated i'll and
,,en,s, harps cymbas. Then all peop'e fell
upon hsir faces wotsipne and prahng The God o bea-
vrn had given tIcG good success. And the, kept
dedication o. the altar eight days and offered burniot
rfirgS with gadGes and sacrificed the sacrifice oi deilv
an. praise They deck-d also the forefront OF the
temple with crCwn5 of gold, Id with sh elds and the
gates and the chamber, t-y renewed, and bang.d BOOTS
upon Thus there very grrat gadness among
ME people, for aat the rproaGh OF le heather was put
away
After reading the above account it will not APP
pear surprising that Josephu., the Jewish hsto-
rian. should say in his Antiquities Of the Jews,
! (Book X chap. i |, sec. u after mentioning this
| prophecy Of Daniels about % the little horn"
. And indeed, SO it came to pass, that nation