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originating, reaffirming, and completing the decree, brought it to the
perfection required by the prophecy to mark the beginning of the 2300
years. Taking 457 B.C., the time when the decree was completed,
as the date of the commandment, every specification of the prophecy
concerning the seventy weeks was seen to have been fulfilled.
“From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to
build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,
and threescore and two weeks”—namely, sixty-nine