12. And the host was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through transgression;
Antiochus also set up heathen altars in every village and town, on which the Jews were obliged to sacrifice swine’s flesh daily
and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
R.V.
13. Then I heard one saint speaking and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake:—
“How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation, to give both the Sanctuary and the host
the National government
to be trodden under foot?”
14. And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
The period amounted to 308 yrs. 6 mos. 21 days and extended from Oct. 14th B.C. 450 to May 4th B.C. 141, at which time the TEMPLE was CLEANSED by Simon Maccabeus. For a full explanation see Notes C. and D.