And he shall confirm the covenant] By the preaching of the Gospel, Christ the Messiah confirmed the covenant of God with the elect people, which are the many, not Jews only, but Gentiles, as Romans 5:15. Matthew 26:28. many for one week] Or, many one week. and in the midst of the week] The later half of the last seven, allotted for the publique function of the Messiah, in the end of it, Christ the King by the Sacrifice of himself once offered ended the daily sacrifice and all Leviticall sacrifices and other ceremonies, vers. 24. for the overspreading of abominations] Or, with the abominable armies. Matthew 24:15. Mark 13:14. Luke 21:20. Meaning that Jerusalem and the Sanctuary should be utterly destroyed for their rebellion against God, and their infidelitie. Therefore the heathens calling into the rest of Christ, sealed in Baptisme, and Supper of the Lord: the burying of Moses ceremonies: the lothsomenesse of Rome, that kild our Lord: and Judahs just fall for infidelitie conclude all: handled here severally as they belonged collaterally to the former speech of vers. 24. he shall make it desolate] In the deluge of Jerusalems destruction do end Daniels last sayings touching order of time. Daniels book containeth 600 years. Seventie years in Babylon: thence 490 to Christs death: then time to repent to hold the land, answerable to that time in the wildernesse to get the land, 40 years, but they went on with the old world in misbeliefe, and in like sort perished when these 600 years ended.