Prophecy of the seventy weeks
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the seventy weeks · seventy weeks · sixty-two and a half weeks
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2 expressionsSeventy weeks prophecy2 mentions
Adversus Judaeos (Latin)
And so, since the prophecy was fulfilled by his coming — that is, by the birth which we recalled above, and by the passion which we have plainly declared — therefore Daniel too said that the vision and the prophet were sealed, since Christ is the seal of all the prophets, fulfilling all the things that had been announced of him before;
the seventy weeks prophecy1 mention
Adversus Judaeos (Latin)
Seventy weeks have been cut short upon your people and upon the holy city, until transgression grow old, and sins be sealed, and acts of justice be prayed for, and eternal justice be brought in, and that the vision and the prophet be sealed, and the holy of holies be anointed.
in the texts
Adversus Judaeos
Daniel's prophetic timetable argued to be fulfilled by Christ.
And so, since the prophecy was fulfilled by his coming — that is, by the birth which we recalled above, and by the passion which we have plainly declared — therefore Daniel too said that the vision and the prophet were sealed, since Christ is the seal of all the prophets, fulfilling all the things that had been announced of him before;
Seventy weeks have been cut short upon your people and upon the holy city, until transgression grow old, and sins be sealed, and acts of justice be prayed for, and eternal justice be brought in, and that the vision and the prophet be sealed, and the holy of holies be anointed.
Stromata
The prophecy of seventy weeks from the book of Daniel, quoted at length and interpreted by Clement as fulfilled in the career of Christ and the Roman destruction of Jerusalem.
And so Christ became king of the Jews, the leader, in the fulfilment of the seven weeks, in Jerusalem;
"Seventy weeks have been cut short upon your people and upon the holy city, to finish sin, and to seal up sins, and to wipe out the iniquities, and to make atonement, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.