The 2300 Days | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 17, 1865

The 2300 Days.

"Joseph Wolfe states that the Jews of Ispahan and Bochara, possess some ancient manuscripts of the prophetic writings of Daniel in which chap. viii, 14 reads 2400, instead of 2300 days.' Also that in Adrianople in 1826, he saw an Armenian manuscript of the Bible in Greek supposed to be of the fifth century, and translated by Misrob, in which the same number occurs; and yet this missionary tells us, that 'as the most number of the manuscripts contain 2300,' he adopted that number in his arguments with the Mura at Lucknow. And, indeed, the authorities in favor of this latter number of 2300 days, are so numerous compared with others, 'that there is probably no numeral in the Scriptures the correctness of which may be more entirely relied on.' And as for the Vatican copy, it is affirmed by competent judges, 'that there is not a single manuscript known to be extant, whether in Hebrew or Greek, that sanctions the reading of 2400 days. It rests entirely upon a manifest typographical error of the Vatican edition, taken from the Vatican manuscript; which the Christian edition of Daniel notices, and says that the Vatican manuscript reads 2300 days.