BY
W. S. AUCHINCLOSS
DORNAN, PRINTER,
PHILADELPHIA
Queen’s College, Oxford.
September 4, 1902.
Mr. Auchincloss has asked me to prefix a few words of introduction to his book:
There is little to say, as the book tells its own tale—clear and to the point.
He has very rightly taken the sidereal year as the basis of his calculations; any other system of computation ends only in difficulties.
But the reader will find other novelties, not the least among them being the fact that the prophecies of Daniel are made to end with the beginning of the history of the Christian Church, instead of lengthening out into a still unknown future; this is a great advance on previous interpreters. And he will doubtless be struck by calculations according to which the 1290 Days of the Hebrew Prophet terminated in A.D. 33.