of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east” (Zech. 14:3, 4); and the great day of God Almighty will end it forever. “Forty and two months” is the holy city to be trampled; that is, three years and a half, no more, and no less. It is a literal city that is trampled and defiled; it is a literal oppression and affliction that befalls it; and so the months which compute the duration of the trouble are also literal months. These great chronological scaffoldings which men build around prophetic dates,