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SEVENTY WEEKS
251, and the sleepers to have been reanimated in 447. Their sleep seemed to them to have been for only a night, and they were greatly astonished, on going into the city, to see the cross exposed npon the church-tops, which but a few hours ago, as it appeared, was the ob- ject of contempt. Their wonderful story told, they were conducted in triumph into the city ; but all died at the same moment. See Herzog, s. v. " Siebenschliifer." Seven Spirits and Orders of thk Ci.ergy. The Roman Catholics of the Western Church, in gen- eral, abide firmly by the principle established by the schoolmen, that the priesthood is to consist of seven classes, corresponding to the seven spirits of God. Of these the three who are chiefly employed in the duties of the ministerial office compose the superior order [see Clkrgy, 3] ; and the four whose duty it is to wait upon the clergy in their ministrations, and to assist in con- ducting public worship, belong to the inferior order. See Coleman, Christ. Antiq. p. 73.
Sevenfold Gifts, the gifts of the Holy Spirit,; so called from their enumeration in Isa. xi, 1-6. There is an allusion to them in the hymn Veni, Creator Spi- ritus in the Ordinal (q. v.), thus —
" Come, Holy Ghost, onr souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire : Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart."
In a prayer of the Order of Confirmation these gifts are specitied as follows: ''Dailj' increase in them thy man- ifold gifts of grace — the spirit of irisdom and iinder- standiiir/, the spirit of counsel and ghostly strengih, the spirit of kno2cleJr/e and true godliness; and fill them, O Lord, with the spirit of thy holy year." See Stanton, Did. of the Church, s. v.
Seventh-day. See Sabbath.
Seventh-day Baptists. See BArxisrs.
Seventh-day Baptists (German). See Bap- tists.
Seventy (n'^"3"^, sMhini), as being the mulliple of the full number seven and the perfect number ten, shares in the sacredness or conventionality of the for- mer in Scripture. See Seven. They are sometimes put in contrast in the complete phrase "seventy times seven" (Gen. iv, 24 ; Jlatt. xviii, 21). Some of the most remarkable combinations of this numbef are specified below.
SEVENTY DISCIPLES of our Lord (Luke x, 1, 17), These seem to have been appointed in accordance with the symbolism of the seventy members of Jacob's household (Exod. i, 5) and, likewise, the seventy elders of the Jews (xxiv, 1 ; Numb, xi, IG). See Sanhedrim. The following is the traditionary list of their names (see Townsend, Neiv Test. ; and the monographs cited by Danz, Worlei-b. s. v. "Lucas," Nos. 60-63; and by Ilase, Leben Jesii, p. 165) :
1. Agabiis the prophet.
2. Amphias of Odyssns, sometimes called Amphiatus.
3. Aniinias, who baptized Piuil, bishop of Damascus.
4. Aiiclronicus of Panuonia, or Spain.
5. Apcllcs of Smyrna, or Heraclea. G. Apollo of Cffisarea.
7. Aiistarchus of Apamea.
8. Arislobnlus of Britain.
9. Artenias of Lystra.
10. Asynciitns of Hyrcauia.
11. Barnabas of Milan.
12. Barnabas of Heraclea. l.S. Ciesar of Dyrrachiura.
14. Caius of Ephesus.
15. Corpus of Berytus in Tlirace. IG. Cephas, bishop of Konia.
17. Clemens of Sardinia. IS. Cleophas of Jerusalem.
19. Crescens of Chalcedou in Galatia.
20. Damns, a priest of idols.
21. Epenetus of Carthage.
22. Epaphroditns of Andriace.
23. Erastus of Paneas, or of the Philippians.
24. Evodias of Antioch.
25. Hernias of Philippi, or Pliilippolis.
2fi. Hermes of Dalmatia.
27. Hermotrenes, who followed Simon IMagus.
28. Hermogenes, bishop of the Megareues.
29. Herodion of Tarsus.
DO. James, the brother of our Lord, at Jerusalem.
31. Jason of Tarsus.
32. Jesus Justus, bishop of Eleutheropolis.
33. Linns of Rome.
34. Luke the Evangelist.
3.^. Lucius of Laodicea in Syria.
36. Mark, who is also John, of Biblopolis, or Biblus.
37. Mark the Evangelist, bishop of Alexandria.
35. INIark, the nephew of Barnabas, bishop of Apollouia.
39. Matthias, afterwards the apostle.
40. Narcissus of Athens.
41. Nicanor, who died when Stephen suffered martyrdom.
42. Nicolaus of Samaria.
43. C)lympins, a niarlyr at Rome.
44. Onesiphorns, bishop of Coroue.
45. Parmenas of the Soli.
40. Patrobnlus, the same with Patrohns (Rom. svi, 14) of Puteoli, or, according to others, of Naples.
47. Philemon of Gaza.
48. Philemon, called in the Acts Philip, who baptized the
emuich of Candace, of Trallium, In Asia.
49. Philologus of Sinope.
50. Phlegon, bishop of Marathon.
51. Phigelhis of Ephesus, who followed Simon Magus.
52. Prochorus of Nicomedia, in Bithyuia.
53. Pudens.
54. Quartns of Berytns.
'55. Rhodion, a martyr at Rome.
56. Rnfus of Thebes.
57. Silas of Corinth.
58. Sylvanus of Thessalonica.
59. Sosipater of Iconium.
60. Sostheues of Colophon. Gl. Stachys of Byzantium.
62. Stephen, the first martyr.
63. Tertius of Iconium.
04. Thaddiens, who carried the epistle of Jesus to Edessa,
to Abgarns.
05. Timou of Bostra of the Arabians.
66. Trophimus, who suffered martyrdom with Paul. 6T. 'I'ychicns, bishop of Chalcedou, of Bithyuia.
68. Tychicus of Colophon.
69. Urbanus of Macedonia.
70. Zenas of Diospolis.
SEVENTY WEEKS of Daniel's Prophecy (Dan, i.\, 25-27). This is so important a link in sacred pre- diction and chronology as to justify its somewhat ex- tensive treatment here. We first give an exact trans- lation of the passage,
"Seventy heptads are decreed [to transpire] upon thy nation, and npon thy holy city, for [entirely] closing the [punishment ofj sin, and for sealing up [liie retributive sentence againsc their] offences, and f(n- expiating guilt, and for bringing in [the state of] perpetual righteous- ness, and for sealing up [the verification of] vision and prophet, and for anointing holy of holies. And thou shalt know and consider, [that] from [the time of] a com- mand occurring for returning and building [i. e. for re- building] Jerusalem till [the coining of] Messiah prince, [shall iiitervene] seven heptads, and sixty and two hep- tads; [its] street shall return and he built [i.e. shall be rebuilt], and [its] fosse, and [that] in distress of the times. And after the sixty and two heptads, Messiah shall be cut off, and nothing [shall be left] to him ; and people of the coming prince shall destroy the city and the holy [build- ing] and his end [of fighting shall come] with [or, like] a flood, and until the end of warring [shall occur the] de- creed desolations. And he shall establish a covenant to- wards many [persons during] one heptad, and [at the] middle of the heptad he shall cause to cease sacrifice and offering; and npon [the topmost] corner [of the Temple shall be reared] abominations [i. e. idolatrous images] of [the] desolator, and [that] till completion, and a decreed [one] shall pour out upon [the] desolator."