shall be the end of these things?" But he is told, "Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." The words that were closed up and sealed, were the end of these things, and which reached to the resurrection of the dead; and although they that are to shine as the brightness of the firmament "shall understand," yet" the wicked will do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand." As Mr. Colver has made an utter failure of showing a single point of resemblance between his literal exposition and Daniel's prophecy, and as there is a direct disagreement between the two, in FIFTY-FOUR particulars, in each of which they should correspond, to say nothing of the variation of the ONE THOUSAND AND SIXTY-TWO days in his four prophetic periods, all candid enquirers after truth-whatever they may think of the theory which he indirectly attempts to overthrow, will never be satisfied with his "PROPHECY OF DANIEL LITERALLY FULFILLED." NOTE. ANOTHER SAMPLE OF COLVER'S LITERAL FULFILMENT. 66 SINCE writing the above, our attention has been called more fully to his literal fulfilment of the 1335 days. These days he BEGINS six months before the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and forty and fifth year; see p. 34 and to prove their END, he says that on the news of the death of Antiochus, as appears from 2 Macc. 1, they sent a letter of congratulation on account of it to their brethren in Egypt." See p. 37. But according to 2 Macc. i. 10, it will be seen that this letter was written from the Jews of Jerusalem to those of Egypt, "in the hundred fourscore and eighth year" of the kingdom of the Grecians, or FORTY-THREE years after the hundred and forty-fifth of 1 Macc. i. 54, when he claims the abomination was set up. In this letter was written, "Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king; for he cast them out that fought within the holy city;' verses 11, 12. There is also allusion made to the time "Demetrious reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth year," when they wrote to Egypt; but that was "in the extremity of trouble." "See 7th verse." If therefore Mr. Colver is correct, and the 1335 days end with the writing of this letter, on their deliverance from peril, it must have been 43 years from the setting up of the abomination, and which, added to the six months before the "setting up," when he claims those days begin, amount to 15,888 days, or an excess of 14,553 days. So here we have for the Angel's Tag, 1335 Colver's Tally, 15,888 We would here inquire of Mr. Colver, whether this was an honest mistake? ང "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years."-ST. PETER, "The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. 20: 10. "I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them." EZEK. 20. 12. "Which are a shadow of things to come."-ST. PAUL. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY JOSHUA V. HIMES, 9 Spruce Street. BOSTON: 14 Devonshire Street. 1843. |