p. 79 | The 2300 Days

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1871

The 2300 Days.

Dr. Hales says, “There is no number in the Bible whose genuineness is better ascertained than that of the 2300 days. It is found in all the printed Hebrew editions, in all the MSS. of Kennicott and De Rossi’s collections, and in all the ancient versions, except the Vatican copy of the Septuagint, which reads 2400, followed by Symmachus; and some copies noticed by Jerome, 2200; both evidently literal errors in excess and defect, which compensate each other, and confirm the mean 2300.”—New Anal. Chron., vol. ii, p. 557.

When speaking of the 2400 days found in the Septuagint, Mr. Cunningham says: “Although all our common editions of the Septuagint have this typographical error, being printed from an edition into which it had crept, yet the manuscript in the Vatican, from which that very edition was printed, has 2300, and not 2400. And of all the principal standard editions of the Septuagint, that alone from which ours are taken has this error.”

Dr. Hales says, “This simple and ingenious adjustment of the chronology of the 70 weeks, considered as forming a branch of the 2300 days, was originally due to the sagacity of H. Wood, Esq., of Rossmead, in the county of Westmeath, Ireland, and published by him in an anonymous commentary on the Revelation of St. John, London, 1787, Payne, 8vo.; whence I republished it in the Inspector, 8vo. 1799; and afterwards in the Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine, 1803; and now more correctly, 1809.”—Dr. Hales’ New Analogy of Chronology., vol. ii. p. 564.