19.  But we seek still more clearly the proof of the time of His coming.  For man being hard to persuade, unless he gets the very years for a clear calculation, does not believe what is stated.  What then is the season, and what the manner of the time?  It is when, on the failure of the kings descended from Judah, Herod a foreigner succeeds to the kingdom?  The Angel, therefore, who converses with Daniel says, and do thou now mark the words, And thou shalt know and understand:  From the going forth of the word for making answer Sep. τοῦ ἀποκριθῆναι, a frequent meaning of the Hebrew בישִּׁהָלְ, by which the Greek Translators understood the answer of Darius to the Letter of Tatnai and his companions.  Both A.V. and R.V. render the word “to restore.”, and for the building of Jerusalem, until Messiah the Prince are seven weeks and three score and two weeks Dan. ix. 25..  Now three score and nine weeks of years contain four hundred and eighty-three years.  He said, therefore, that after the building of Jerusalem, four hundred and eighty-three years having passed, and the rulers having failed, then cometh a certain king of another race, in whose time the Christ is to be born.  Now Darius the Mede Darius the Mede (Dan. v. 31) succeeded Belshazzar as king in Babylon b.c. 538, the date assigned in Dan. ix. 1 to the prophecy of the 70 years.  But “Darius the king” in whose 6th year (b.c. 516) the Temple was finished (Ezra vi. 15) was Darius Hystaspis, king of Persia, whom Cyril here confounds with “Darius the Mede.”  He also fails to distinguish the rebuilding of the Temple, b.c. 516, from the rebuilding of the City by permission of Artaxerxes Longimanus, b.c. 444 (Nehemiah, ii. 1). built the city in the sixth year of his own reign, and first year of the 66th Olympiad according to the Greeks.  Olympiad is the name among the Greeks of the games celebrated after four years, because of the day which in every four years of the sun’s courses is made up of the three In speaking of three supernumeracy hours in the year instead of nearly six, Cyril seems to follow the division of the diurnal period into twelve parts, not twenty-four.  The Jews had derived this division either from the Egyptians, or more probably from the Babylonians:  see Herodotus, II. 109. (supernumerary) hours in each year.  And Herod is king in the 186th Olympiad, in the 4th year thereof.  Now from the 66th to the 186th Olympiad there are 120 Olympiads intervening, and a little over.  So then the 120 Olympiads make up 480 years:  for the other three years remaining are perhaps taken up in the interval between the first and fourth years.  And there thou hast the proof according to the Scripture which saith, From the going forth of the word that Jerusalem be restored and built until Messiah the Prince are seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.  Of the times, therefore, thou hast for the present this proof, although there are also other different interpretations concerning the aforesaid weeks of years in Daniel.