GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
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 GENERAL coNsIDRRATToNs

 l. Christ and apostles doubtless understood Daniels q they gaveOs ,io such e.icSations. & Why did they mot Very simple From 29OO subtract Ter, prosecutions of Christians. &c., in S940. For arguments sake, admit his view of Matt xxiv. See S. and Mark xiii g. If not the day nor hour. 2. Our A. D. is deficient four years. See nargtn of quarto bible at Matt it. l, and Luke ii. 2l. In strict reckoning the year lsf3 will be l347 years from the birth of Christ According 10 Millers figures, the world should have been burnt up in ls39!

 g. Miller adopts the reckoning of 3so days to year. A deficiency of nearly 5 IA days per annum since Chriss death, amounts to error of more than 26 years! Take 26 from l343, leaves 1877!

 Computation of ISms

 Mir. Miller's cardinal position, tha, dag in propho- cy always signifies a yeGr. Denied.

 The 70 weeks of Dan K. 21. probably signify sab s:;,s rso weeks: s, or weeks of years Ley xxv 8: thee. seven times seven years" Sc.

 Days Ms examples ,i; !; Gen; Yxix a7 Fulfil is.,iyisy Nam xiv B. Tie % ao days, " '1tas: s.torv the 40 years, prophecy. 8 fzek. iv The sign, 43O days. history inc p'sdetio", 4so ysars Express 'V Gen s 4 M Dsuge, sD @ Dr fan 40 y doys . johu. l Afier three days, cross Jordan" Jonah iii. d. ".Ye. forty days, and Ninevah," Sc. Do days here signify years?

 Tpo Nominations.

 Danie! had q vision of foul. grea, monarehies.- Babylonian. Medic. .Persion, Macedonian, Roman, chap. viii. During the dominion of the latter. the judgment was set and an the books were opened Me Son of Man came toiM te clouds of heoren [. =. .aRd there was GIVEN a kingdom, ''&c. See verses 9-l4 Compare with Matt. xxiv. 29-34, in which" tae Son cf Man coming in Me clouds of generation. See also Matt. xvi. 27 as. Phrase this generation" the men of this age: See Matt xiii. 3o. Mark viii. F; Luke xi. 29-3s

 not extend beyond, the coming above noted, namely. during the natural life time of some who listened to his personal ministry. Matt. x. g John xxi. %. ions of the Macedonian empire, chap viii. s-l4-It relates to Antiochus Epiphanes, whose ascendancy and evil influence concerning the Jews continued He polluted the sanctuary, and it was desoIate for time, times, and half equal to years and months So testihes Josephus !twas then cleansed by Judas Maccabeus, Dan. viii. IA.

 Compare Dan. xii. l. and Matt. xxv. l5-2l. Also see Dan. xii 2: "and when he shall have accomplished THESE THINGS shah be fnished' = namely, when the Jews were led away captive into all nations. Luke xxi. 20-32.

 Apocalypse.

 Dase.-Many high authorities A. D. 90. But Gro titus, Lehtfoot, Hammond, Sir Isaac Newton. Bishop Newton, Westein. Stuart &c, place it previously to tho destruction of Jerusalem. So the internal evi dence. Rev, Ri. l.. 2.s.

 lRteRt.-Thfee cities, and two women and a man. l. Sodom, signifying Jerusalem, txi 8, the repre-. sentative of JUDAISM So also the woman who became mother of the child, Jssus. Christianity 2 Babylon signifying Rome, the representative of PAeANIsM. So also the woman associated with the seven hilled city, xvii. 9, lS. 3. New Jerusalem. the symbol of CHRlsrANrrY- So of the man child as above. See Gal iv. 25, 26- Also. Rev. iii l2: xxi. 2. | 1yms.-See chap.i. l-3i and compare Dan. xiii 1 (, g. and Rev. xxii. 10. Specimen of ful6lment. Chap. vi. White horse, | tho conqueror; rcd war! black, famine. Compare | she woes under the 9th seal with Luke xiii 30 De solution of Jerusalem Yet kAller dates it in l79O!

 End ofthe World. The end of kosmos' (material world) does not oc- cur in the bible; but the end of 0on lera) occurs times in the New Testament Hebrews ix. 26 ; ~ foundation Of the world, (kosmos) but in che end o the world (aion, hath he (Jesus) appeared &c. End oi the Jewish era or economy. So in Cor. \. II.

 See also Matt xiii. 8; The field is the world, tkosmos: the harvest s the end of the worId Gion~ ~ Thus 3 imes-verses, 39, 40, 49.

 The ether passages are Matt xxiv. 8 xviii. 20.- h all these cases the end of he world relates to the conclusion Of the JeaUish era which was the date of the coming of the Sen of man in ihe clouds of heaven Dan. vii. 9-l4. Matt. xxiv. 29-S4. Rev. n. MT. Thomas states that Mfr. Miller is not govern cd tn hs calculations by the same rule at all times He usua y calls days yeaFs Of time but when years are mentioned in the Scriptures they pass with him so make ont his chronological calculations for years Vhersas they should be multiplied by the days Ofeaeh year, and thus make alI ks pFediotions established Oae and the same principle. According to Mir. Millers own alculafDns, tas NIT. who was condemned 10 iced with the beasts of the earth woud have been subjected to punishment 400o years. which time wOald have ter minated about the year 1850; and to use hs (ThO-