Armour on Cyrus, Kurios, and the Four Seventies

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1873

Armour on Cyrus, Kurios, and the Four Seventies

In the Advent Christian Times of March 25, 1873, at the conclusion of an article entitled “The Four Seventies,” A. Armour says:—

“One thought more:— We must be in Babylon,—not of Babylon, till Cyrus,—Greek, Kurios—The Lord—comes. The coming of Cyrus, and the end of Babylon, is the first event in the endings of the times.”

The Greek word for Lord, Kurios, is not the Greek word for Cyrus, which is Kuros; a slight distinction, which would have materially affected Mr. A.’s criticism, had he noticed it.