And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Ver. 27. And he (Messiah) shall confirm the covenant see Dan 9:24 with many.] Heb., With his Rabbis, that is, with his elect. Compare Isa 53:11 Job 32:9 Jeremiah 41:2 .
For one week,] i.e., In the last seven years of the seventy.
And in the midst of the week,] i.e., In three years and a half he shall, by his passion, disannul the Jewish sacrifices and services.
And for the overspreading (or wing) of abominations,] i.e., For the abominable outrages committed by the seditious Jews, those zealots, as they called themselves, who filled the temple with dead bodies. Others, from Mat 24:15-16 cf. Luke 20:20,21, think the Romans to be meant, who set up their eagles (their ensigns) in the temple, together with the images, first of Caligula, and then of Titus, their emperors.
Even until the consummation.] Until the end, and to the utmost. The Jews have often attempted, but could never yet recover their country, nor are like to do. Perpetua et consummatissima consumptione urgentur.
Shall be poured.] As if the windows of heaven were opened, as once they were at the flood. See Daniel 9:26 .