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“From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Days: thirteen more than three and a half, as we reckon. The odd number might be neglected. verse 7. The abomination continued three years and ten days, but the sacrifices had been discontinued six months and three days before. See Calmet. 8:14. If Daniel speak of lunar years, as is probable, the difference would only be two days. Calmet.—From the abolishing of the mass as much as possible, and the practice of heresy and abomination, unto the end of antichrist’s persecution, 1290 days shall elapse. Worthington.
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