I should not thus consider the expression “After the threescore and two weeks” as implying an interval; but rather as being just the same as, “at the end of the sixty-two weeks,” “when they are accomplished.” The words which stand in our English version, “but not for Himself,” have often been taken as if they spoke of the vicarious character of out Saviour’s suffering; this would however be, I believe, placing a most true and important doctrine upon an insufficient basis. I believe that the words