Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 9:24

24 Seventy weeks are determined 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 everlasting righteousness , and to seal up the vision and prophesie , and to anoint the most holy .

These weeks are weeks of dayes, and these dayes are so many years: though neither dayes nor months, nor years are expressed, (which makes it somewhat the more obscure) but weeks only. It is yet plain and obvious that the Angel useth the number seventy to shew the favour of God towards them, that they might have so much liberty and joy as their seventy years bondage, and sufferings amounted to. Yet was this but a Type of the time of Grace which was to follow after by the coming of Christ.

Why doth he call them Daniels People. 1. Because they were his by Nation, Blood, Laws and Profession. 2. Thine because thou dost own them, and art so tender of them, and so zealous for them.

Note, The Angel discovers first the disease in three several words, [non-Latin text not transcribed] which contain all sorts of sin, which the Messiah should free us from by his full Redemption. See Exod. 34.6, 7. Matth. 1.21. viz. original, actual, of ignorance, presumption, &c. also fault and punishment, which we may prove by Scripture. 2. The Angel shews us also the cure of this disease in three words, le callee, [illegible: 1 word] chatem, le capper. 1. To finish Transgression. 2. To make an end of Sin. 3. To make Reconciliation. All which words are very significant in the original, and signifie to pardon, to blot out, mortifie, exp[illegible: 1 letter]ate.

i. e. To bring in justification by the free Grace of God in Jesus Christ the Lord our Righteousness, Isa. 53.6. Ier. 23.6. and 33.16. 1 Cor. 1.30. Called everlasting because Christ is eternal, and he and his Righteousness is Everlasting. Christ brings this in 1. By his Merit. 2. By his Gospel declaring it. 3. By Faith applying, and sealing it by the Holy Ghost.

Heb. prophet.

To abrogate the former dispensation of the Laws and to fulfil it, and the Prophesies relating to Christ, and to confirm, and ratifie the New Testament or Gospel Covenant of Grace. The Talmud saith, all the Prophesies of the Prophets related to Christ.

By which alluding to the Holy of Holies which was anointed, Exod. 30.25. to verse 31. and 40. from ver. 9. to verse 16. This Typified the Church, which is called anointed, 2 Cor. 1.21. and Heaven into which Christ is entered, Heb. 8.1. and 9.24▪ and 10.19. but chiefly Christ himself, who is the Holy One, Act. 3.14. He received the Spirit without measure, Iohn 3.34. His humane nature is therefore called the Temple, Iohn 2.19. and Tabernacle, Heb. 8.2. and 9.11. moreover Christ is he that held the Law, by which the Will of God is revealed, the Propitiatory, appeasing God. The Table that nourisheth us, the Candlestick that enlightens, the Altar that sanctifies, the Gift and Offering. All these were anointed and Holy; by this word Anointing he alludes to his name Messiah and Christ, both which signifie anointed. Christ was anointed at his first Conception, and personal Union, Luke 1.35. In his Baptism, Matth. 3.17. to his three Offices by the Holy Ghost. 1. King, Matth. 2.2. 2. Prophet, Isa. 61.1. 3. Priest, Psal. 110.4.

Marginal references: Or, to restrain.; Or, seal upon.