160AD Clement of Alexandria (On Matthew 24:15,
The Abomination of Desolation) "We have still to
add to our chronology the following, -- I mean the
days which Daniel indicates from the desolation of
Jerusalem, the seven years and seven months of
the reign of Vespasian. For the two years are added
to the seventeen months and eighteen days of Otho,
and Galba, and Vitellius; and the result is three years
and six months, which is "the half of the week," as
Daniel the prophet said. For he said that there were
two thousand three hundred days from the time that
the abomination of Nero stood in the holy city, till its
destruction. For thus the declaration, which is subjoined,
shows: "How long shall be the vision, the sacrifice taken
away, the abomination of desolation, which is given,
and the power and the holy place shall be trodden under
foot? And he said to him, Till the evening and morning,
two thousand three hundred days, and the holy place shall
be taken away." … "These two thousand three hundred days,
then, make six years four months, during the half of which
Nero held sway, and it was half a week; and for a half,
Vespasian with Otho, Galba, and Vitellius reigned. And
on this account Daniel says, "Blessed is he that cometh
to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days."
For up to these days was war, and after them it ceased.
And this number is demonstrated from a subsequent
chapter, which is as follows: "And from the time of
the change of continuation, and of the giving of the
abomination of desolation, there shall be a thousand
two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five
days." " (The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2, p. 334)
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"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due."
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