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first seven.
Christ will then be killed after the sixty-nine weeks, that is to say, in
the last week), "the Christ shall be cut off, and a people of the prince
that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and overwhelm all,
and the end of that war shall accomplish the desolation."

"Now one week," (which is the seventieth, which remains), "shall confirm the
covenant with many, and in the midst of the week," (that is to say, the last
three and a half years), "he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,
even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate."

Daniel 11. "The angel said to Daniel: There shall stand up yet," (after
Cyrus, under whom this still is), "three kings in Persia," (Cambyses,
Smerdis, Darius); and the fourth who shall then come," (Xerxes) "shall be
far richer than they all, and far stronger, and shall stir up all his people
against the Greeks.

"But a mighty king shall stand up," (Alexander), "that shall rule with great
dominion, and do according to his will. And when he shall stand up, his
kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided in four parts toward the four
winds of heaven," (as he had said above, 7:6; 8:8), "but not his posterity;
and his successors shall not equal his power, for his kingdom shall be
plucked up, even for others besides these," (his four chief successors).

"And the king of the south," (Ptolemy, son of Lagos, Egypt), "shall be
strong; but one of his princes shall be strong above him, and his dominion
shall be a great dominion," (Seleucus, King of Syria. Appian says that he
was the most powerful of Alexander's successors).

"And in the end of years they shall join themselves together, and the king's
daughter of the south," (Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of
the other