After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 26. Weeks, or four hundred and thirty-eight years, which elapsed from the twentieth of Artaxerxes to the death of Christ, according to the most exact chronologists. Calmet.—Slain. Prot. “cut off, but not for himself, and the people of the prince that,” and so forth Bible.—S. Jerom and some MSS. read, Christus, et non erit ejus. The sense is thus suspended. The Jews lose their prerogative of being God’s people. Calmet.—Christ will not receive them again. Saint Jerome—Greek “the unction shall be destroyed, and there shall not be judgment in him.” The priesthood and royal dignity is taken from the Jews. Theod.—The order of succession among the high priests was quite deranged, while the country was ruled by the Romans, and by Herod, a foreigner. Calmet.—Leader. The Romans under Titus. Challoner. Calmet.
“Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).