But that the term, or appellation, Messiah, can be applied to Cyrus, is evident; since we find it so applied by God himself in the xlv.ch.of Isaiah.

"Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus.2.It is a singular fact, that the appellation "Messiah" is never applied to the expected deliverer of the Israelites in the whole bible, except, perhaps, in ii.Psalm.It is an appellation indifferently applied to kings, and priests, and prophets; to all who were anointed, as an induction into their office, and has nothing in it peculiar and exclusive; but the application of it to the expected deliverer of Israel, originated in and from the Targums.3.In order to make this prophecy, and this phrase, "Messiah the prince," or "the anointed prince," apply to Jesus of Nazareth, Christians connect, and join together, this first member of the prophecy with the second, in open defiance of the original Hebrew; and after all, they can reap no benefit from this manoeuvre; for the term "Messiah Nagid," or "the anointed prince," can never apply to Jesus, in this place, at any rate; because he certainly was no prince or "Nagid," a word which in the Hebrew bible always, without exception, denotes a prince, or ruler, one invested with temporal authority, or supreme command.

Now, as it is allowed on all hands, that Jesus had no such temporal power, as a prince, or ruler; it, consequently, follows, that he can by no means be the "anointed prince" mentioned in the prophecy.
Second Period.

"And (in) threescore and two weeks, the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times," Here the angel gave him to understand, that after the seven weeks before mentioned, there would come a time in which the building would be hindered, (and which was on account of the letter written by Rheum and Shimshai to Artaxerxes, who, in consequence thereof, made the building to cease-See Ezra and Nehemiah) till the second year of Darius, who gave leave to finish the building: which continued till the destruction by the Romans, sixty-two weeks, beside the last week, at the beginning of which, the Romans came, and warred against them, and at length entirely destroyed the cities of Judah, Jerusalem, and the temple.

For, from the time that Cyrus first gave leave to build the temple, till its completion, was twenty-one years; and its duration, four hundred and twenty; in the whole, sixty-three weeks, or four hundred and forty one years.