Excerpt from The Gospel Visitor, Vol. 18: January, 1868 Daniel speaks of the time thus, seventy weeks are determin ed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in an everlasting righteous ness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Micah saith, But thou Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose going forth has been from of old, from everlasting. Now in the face of all these prephe cies need we wonder, that after be ing deprived of prophets for the space of nearly four hundred years, the sanctuary defiled, the Aaronic high priesthood destroyed or trans ferred to the Asmonean family, and united with the Kingly power, the scepter about to depart from Judah, that those who remained faithful to the Theocratical Government of Judea, with longing desire looked for Shiloh their law giver, and de liverer from the yoke of bondage under which they groaned for four thousand years? They waited for the consolation of Israel in the per son of their Jesslah who was to bruise the serpent's head, and de stroy the work of the Devil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.