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Sir Isaac Newton on the Prophecies of Daniel

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Nov 7, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 45.

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Sir Isaac Newton on the Prophecies of Daniel

THERE were but two returns from captivity—Zerubbabel’s and Ezra’s; in Zerubbabel’s they had only commission to build the temple; in Ezra’s they first became a polity, or city, by a government of their own. Now, the years of this Artaxerxes began about two or three months after the summer solstice, and his seventh fell in with the third year of the eighteenth Olympiad; and the latter part thereof, wherein Ezra went up to Jerusalem, was in the year of the Julian period, 4257 [that is, B. C. 457].—Sir Isaac Newton on the Prophecies of Daniel.