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| | An Exposition of the Prophecies Supposed by William Miller to Predict the Second Coming of Christ in 1843 |
 | | Fixing the commencement of this punishment of seven times in the year BC 677, when Manasseh, one of the kings of Judah, was taken captive, he proceeds as before, and subtracting 677 from the whole number, 2520, brings us again to the year 1843. |
 | | That he did not select the number 677 BC from choice, but from necessity, is very evident from the fact that it was not a national captivity, but only of a single king, who, after a period of imprisonment, was restored again to his throne. |
 | | Miller's dates and theory, this did not occur in the year BC 677, when Manasseh was made prisoner, for the inhabitants of Jerusalem were not carried captive with him; but in the year BC 606, twenty-three years after Jeremiah began to prophesy, and not, as Mr. |
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