{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3868","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":27,"verse_to":27},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: Christ was killed not immediately after the sixty-two weeks but at the end of the seventieth week. As far as we can figure out, [Daniel] separates this last week from the others, for he was going to say more about this week. Christ was crucified in that week.… The events that follow—the fact that a people and their general would destroy the city and the sanctuary and that its end would be devastation and after the end of the war desolation would be decreed for it—these events do not pertain to the seventy weeks. It had foretold that those weeks extend up to the leadership of the Christ, but still the Scriptures, after foretelling his coming and passion, wanted to show what would take place thereafter to the people who refused to welcome him. He says that Titus would come with the Roman people, who in the fortieth year after the passion of our Lord destroyed the city and the temple so that not even one rock remained on top of another. But having given a taste of these things in anticipation, he soon returns to expounding the week that he had glossed over. \"He will confirm a covenant with many during one week,\" that is, in that last week in which John the Baptist, our Lord and the apostles converted many to the faith. \"And in the middle of the week offering and sacrifice will come to an end.\" The middle of this week was the fifteenth year of Tiberias Caesar, when at the baptism of Christ the purification brought by the sacrifices began to grow obsolete, as far as the faithful were concerned. Again that which follows, \"In the temple there will be an abomination of desolation, and the desolation will remain until the consummation and the end,\" has a view to the era that follows. The history of past generations and the events of our own times confirm the truthfulness of this prophecy.<br/><i>— THE RECKONING OF TIME 9</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: Certainly this end of the Jews will be by no means similar to their transmigration to Egypt or Babylon; in fact they were dismissed from there after four hundred years, and from here after seventy. This ruin fixed by the decree of God the judge will remain immutable to the end. He shall make a strong covenant with many: Christ will make the Testament holy and firm through one week and half a week, until he removes the victim and the sacrifice. He is the one who set the victim and the sacrifice but who also abolishes them. In their place shall be an abomination that desolates: the Romans, after submitting Judea to their power, placed the eagle, symbol of their emperor, in the temple. And this is what we read: \"So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken by the prophet Daniel.\" Until the decreed end is poured out on desolation, that is, until the full execution of the divine decrees, the city will be given to oblivion and will lie destroyed and abandoned.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 9:27</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: Then he says, \"after sixty-two weeks, times shall be spun out and he shall set forth a covenant with many for one week. And in half of the week sacrifice and the drink offering shall be taken away and upon the Temple shall be an abomination of desolation.\" [Daniel 9:27]</p><p>For after sixty-two weeks was fulfilled and after Christ has come and the Gospel has been preached in every place, times having been spun out, the end remains one week away, in which Elijah and Enoch shall be present and in its half the abomination of desolation, the Antichrist, shall appear who threatens desolation of the world. After he comes, sacrifice and drink offering, which now in every way is offered by the nations to God, shall be taken away.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.35.2-3</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: This one will kill the two witnesses and precursors of Christ who herald his glorious advent from heaven, as he says through the prophet, \"And I will give power to my two witnesses and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days wearing sack cloth.\" [Revelation 11:3] Just as also he spoke to Daniel, \"And he shall establish a covenant with many for one week and it will be that in the half of the week he shall take away my sacrifice and drink offering,\" [Daniel 9:27] so that the one week may be shown as divided into two, after the two witnesses will have preached for three and a half years, the Antichrist will wage war against the saints the remainder of the week and will desolate all the world so that what was spoken may be fulfilled, \"And they will give the abomination of desolation one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who endures to Christ and reaches the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days!\" [Daniel 12:11-12]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.50.1-2</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Hegesippus</b>: But what else did Daniel proclaim? He was prophesying not that which had already been done but that which would take place. What is the abomination of desolation that he proclaimed would take place when the Romans came, unless it is those things that now threaten? What is the oracle that we often mention as having been declared by the most high God, that the city will perish down to its foundation, when their own prince will have been killed at the hands of his fellow tribe members, unless it is that which we now see being fulfilled? And perhaps because it did not please them to keep the temple unstained by innocent blood, it pleases God to purify it by fire.<br/><i>— ON THE JEWISH WAR BY JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS 5:2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"5de0288d1e9aae51cf26a1c42f66247fae3e7b555f48dd1d2eb012dd769ce658","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3868,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b5d4b3f87132551c09ef9db4cda75ab5e2b2f23731b4359cb6a09d4a222dd8e8","translator":null,"work":null}