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Advocate for Dr. William Lloyd, Who Was
Originator of 4004 BC as the Year of Creation
A
Chronological Treatise Upon
The
Seventy Weeks of Daniel
Wherein is evidently shewn the Accomplishment of the Predicted Events,
As Especially Of the Cutting Off of the Messiah after the Predicted VII
Weeks and LXII Weeks, according to the Express Letter of the Prophecy,
and in most exact Agreement with Ptolemy's Canon ; So Also Of the
Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, in the LXXth, or separate One
Week, in the Litteral, Obvious, and Primary Sense
Benjamin Marshall
Rector of Naunton in Gloucestershire
1725
Printed for James Knapton (at the Crown Printer's London)
"the Romans meant this to be a FINAL DESTRUCTION, such as was foretold in
this Prophecy" // "the Messiah's future People the Romans were to be the
immediate Instruments of God's Vengeance upon Jerusalem"
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Interacts with Grotius, Hammond, Prideaux, Ptolemy's Canon
of Kings and Bishop
Lloyd
"And it is hard to say what Times Christ should mean here
but those two times that are mentioned in this prophecy: namely, first the
time of the Messiah's being cut off, which was to be After the 69 weeks ;
and secondly the time of the single week, the week that was appointed of God
for the destroying of the City, and Temple at Jerusalem, and the dissolving
of the Jewish Church." (p. 209)
"Therefore in few words, and to sum up the whole, do we
read in general this Prophecy that the Messiah's future People the Romans
were to be the immediate Instruments of God's Vengeance upon Jerusalem, when
the Day, or Season of her Visitation was come for it, even the time therein
determined for the destroying of the City, and Sanctuary - The matter of
fact in full accomplishment evidently proves that they were accordingly the
effectual Executioners of the divine displeasure against that People, and
Nation." (p 265)
"As therefore the determined Restoration of Jerusalem in
the beginning of these Weeks was literally predicted, and fulfilled in the
first Period of them, so no less her final Destruction in the end of them,
in the accomplishment of the express Characters of the last Period of them,
or the One Week, and more distinguished HALF PART of it." (p. 260)
"Consequently, the Half Week there spoken of, can be no
other than a more distinguished Half Part thereof, even of the latter Half
Part, as the exact Accomplishment of its predicted Events in that
Destruction of Jerusalem which was by the Romans (as it will appear
hereafter) doth evidently demonstrate." (p. xv)
CLIMAX OF THE ENTIRE BOOK: "Then all was
thrown down to the Ground, excepting only a part of the western Wall, and
two or three Towers reserv'd as Monuments of Victory. And
the Plough was drawn over the ground on which the City and Temple had stood,
to shew that the Romans meant this to be a FINAL DESTRUCTION, such as was
foretold in this Prophecy ; and to shew also, and more particularly that
there was not now ONE STONE left upon another, according to our blessed
Saviour's Prophecies of the City and of the Temple." (p. 280)
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID
Martin Anstey
"Marshall was the literary executor of Bishop Lloyd, whom he closely
followed." (Romance of Bible Chronology)
Michel de La Roche
"The very learned Mr. Benjamin Marshall,
Rector of Naunton in Glocestershire, has
lately publissh'd three Letters in vindication of the late Bishop Lloyd's
hypothesis of Daniel's prophecy of the seventy Weeks. One to
the Rev. Mr. Lancaster, Vicar of Bowden in Cheshire ; in answer to his
remarks on the said hypothesis. Another to Mr. Whiston, occasioned by his
latter hypothesis of the said Weeks. The third to the Author of the
Scheme of Literal Prophecy considered: Wherein are examined and
refuted the said Author's pretences for referring
this prophecy of the Weeks, to the person and times of Antiochus
Epiphanes : And it is proved, that the said prophecy, in its literal
sense, is applicable wholly, and only to the Messias of the Christians,
and the times of their Meffias." (The Present state of the republick of letters) |
