[JohnnyM]

The difference is in definition of the "week". There is factual basis for defining a week as 7 years or for defining it as 7 days. So the difference is NOT in the literally-ness of the passage (it literally means 7 weeks), but what time-period the term "week" is referring to. To take it figuratively would mean that "70 weeks" as a whole is an indiscrimanately long period of time.

JM

[SoothingDave]

The difference is in definition of the "week". There is factual basis for defining a week as 7 years or for defining it as 7 days.

Where is the English or Hebrew or Greek word for "week" defined as 7 years?

What is this factual basis you speak of?

SD