Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 12:12

12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes .

These days are either natural dayes, and properly so called, and so the times of Antiochus are hereby noted. Or 2. Prophetical dayes, a day for a year, Ezek. 4.6. and thus 1290 days is 42 months, which if we multiply at 30 dayes the month make the sum 1290. Here many learned Expositors fall in together to that opinion of calculating these years by days, be ginning the 1290 dayes from the profaneing of the Temple to the Letter of King Antiochus to the Iews, 2 Macc. 11.27. and so make them to end exactly then: and concerning the abomination of desolation, whereof see what is said, Dan. 7.25. & 8.14. & 9.25. being the Epocha from Apollonius coming, who was called the Prince of Abominations, or from the Worship of God forbidden by Antiochus, and at last restored by Iudas Maccabeus, and confirmed by Antiochus from thence to the death of Antiochus are 45 dayes, which added to 1290, make 1335, but this is a false account and contrary to the scope of this place, and to History, and Chronology, which the learned Ioseph Mede hath proved at large, lib. oper. III. pag. 882. The Iews make these dayes to end, i. e. years, at the coming of Christ but uncertainly when to begin their reckoning, but have been often and grosly deceived. Sound Christians refer it to the second coming of Christ, Mr. Mede makes the chief Revelation of Antichrist to be in 1123. the latter number of 1335. ends in An. Christi 1168, and so the Type of Antichrist which is Antioch. Epiph. leads us by the hand to the Revelation of Antichrist which fell out An. 1106. to An. 1120. between which time the Papal power was highly mounted the Church greatly persecuted, after that great numbers of them had separated from the abominations of Rome, openly declaring it to be Antichristian: Therefore the Angel saith, the Saints by their tryals shall be purified and made white, that is by those cruel persecutions which befel them, from their ignorant and inraged Enemies, who went on to do wickedly and did not understand. How this is further cleared, and why the Angel makes use of the Roman supputation in this case namely by indictions, and how it answers, and resolves the case, see in the forecited Author.