after threescore and two weeks. The definite Article here marks this period, as the one just mentioned in Daniel 9:24, i.e. after the 483 years. How long "after" is not stated; but it must surely be either immediately or very soon after the Messiah was thus presented and proclaimed in and to Jerusalem as the Prince. The decree was issued in the month of Nisan, the same month as the events in Matthew 21:1 Matthew 26:61. Compare Zechariah 9:9; Luke 19:41-44 ("this thy day").
threescore and two: i.e. the sixty-two sevens (= 434 years). See note on Daniel 9:25.
cut off: i.e. in death. Hebrew. karath (Genesis 9:11.Deuteronomy 20:20; Jeremiah 11:19; Psalms 37:9). Compare Hebrew. gazar (Isaiah 53:8).
but not for Himself. but no sign of aught for Him: i.e. He shall be rejected and crucified, and shall not then enter on the kingdom for which He came. It will be rejected, and therefore become in abeyance. See John 1:11.
-26 the people: i.e. the Roman people. Compare Luke 19:41-44; Luke 21:20.
the prince that shall come. a prince, &c. This is "the little horn" of Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:24-26; Daniel 8:9-12; Daniel 8:23-25. See App-89.
shall destroy the city, &c. See Matthew 21:41; Matthew 22:7. This also was "after threescore and two weeks", but not within the last seven; which are confined to the doings of "the prince's people, the people that is coming" ("the little horn") after the doings of "the people" in the destruction of the city, which ends Daniel 9:26. What "the little horn" will do is stated in the words which follow. Antiochus never did this. He defiled it, but left it uninjured.
the end thereof: or, his own end [come]: i.e. the end of the desolator looking on to the end of the last seven years.
and unto the end of the war. up to the full end of the war (i.e. the end of the last seven years).
desolations. desolate places. Compare Matthew 23:38.
determined. See note on "the wall", Daniel 9:25.