Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy Holy City, the capital which was so dear to the heart of Daniel, the determination of the time being purposely indefinite, to finish the transgression and to make an end, of sins, to restrain the rebellion and to seal up the sins, so that they would no longer find expression, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, to effect an expiation for guilt, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, the result of the expiation of sin, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, rather, "and the prophet," for there would be no further need of prophets when the chief and greatest prophecies would be fulfilled, and to anoint the Most Holy, the new, spiritual Temple spoken of by Ezekiel being meant, the establishment of the Church of the New Testament on earth, and especially its consummation in heaven, at the end of time.