Hi Sophiee, Dougg -- do you understand grammar? Do you know that a comma separates two things in a sentence? Well, you are ignoring the comma!

As Shmelke pointed out the original KJV translators knew enough to separate these two time periods. Someone in a later publication of the KJV eliminated it. Wonder why??!!


I am not ignoring any commas. shmelke was talking about the omission of a semi-colon. From shmelke's original post:

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The 1611 edition of King James Version correctly puts a semicolon between the two clauses (shall be seven weeke; and threescore and two weekes, the street shall be built againe, and the wall euen in troublous times). This is in agreement with the Masoretic accents in Hebrew Bibles. Unfortunately, the modern KJV (and other Christian translations) removes the semicolon:


Whether semi-colon or comma between the seven weeks (semicolon); and threescore and two weeks - doesn't make any difference to Christians because the total is still 69 weeks for the anointed one - as verified by verse 26.

9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

The most damaging thing to Judaism's assertion that there are two anointed ones - is that in verse 26 there is no wording to the effect - "And after threescore and two weeks shall a second (or perhaps another) anointed one be cut off....."

If you recall in the other writings of Daniel, like dealing with the horns, for example, each time there is a horn representing another person, Daniel makes that distinction by saying "another" horn or something similar. But there is no such language to indicate the anointed in verse 25 is not the anointed in verse 26.

Since Judaism insists that the semi-colon argument identifies Cyrus as the anointed in verse 25, then there is a big time problem with it taking three score and two weeks, 434 years to rebuild Jerusalem

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