To Correspondents

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 8, 1873

To Correspondents.

GEO. A. KING: The word translated “times” in Dan. 7:25, which the little horn should think to change, is a Chaldaic word, and occurs eleven times in the Old Testament. It is translated season, twice, and times, nine times. It is never rendered year. Gesenius, in his lexicon, does not once give it the definition of a year, but usually of a stated or appointed time. He gives also the definition of sacred seasons, or festivals, and refers to Dan. 7:25 as an instance of its use in that sense. Its kindred Hebrew words occur in the O. T. seven times, and are translated times and seasons, in all cases.