Hi ProphecyStudent,
I think you are reading too much into the verse… the differences you speak of are superficial, they do not really exist. ...
Hi Steve,
Let me reiterate the salient distinctions:
Masoretic Text
25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto
one anointed, a prince, shall be seven weeks; and for threescore and two weeks, it shall be built again, with broad place and moat, but in troublous times.
26 And
after the threescore and two weeks shall an anointed one be cut off, and be no more; and the people of a prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; but his end shall be with a flood; and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Septuagint Text
25 And thou shalt know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince
there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then
the time shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.
In the Masoretic there are
TWO anointed ones (the first after the seven; and the second after the sixty-two), and in the Septuagint there is
ONE anointed one (after the seven and sixty-two).
Do you suggest this is inconsequential? Maybe I should average these two texts and arrive at 1.5 anointed ones?
As already provided, and discounted by you, Newton observed that NO society through out the history of mankind has EVER summed two numbers (i.e., "seven and sixty-two") to represent what should be provided as the intended value (i.e., sixty-nine).
So unless you have some precedent for such a convention (i.e., Biblical or societal), then Newton and the Masoretic text is correct on this point.
From what I've read, the LXX translation of Daniel is not very good.
Hi HeRoseFromTheDead,
This certainly would confirm my observations.
PropphecyStudent