were to transpire therein, events which have wrought our peace with God.”34 The established fact that Daniel’s prophecy of the seventy weeks is written in the poetic style of synthetical parallelisms35 should be considered as a hermeneutical guide in a responsible literary exegesis. Doctrinal presuppositions may never overrule or deny the truth of literary exegesis. The application of Daniel’s style of parallelism leads to the