Miscellanies 1.21.147

This number is also shown from the following chapter, which runs thus: “And from the time of the change of the daily sacrifice, and the abomination of desolation being given, one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits and comes to one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.” Flavius Josephus the Jew, who composed the Jewish histories, bringing down the dates, says that from Moses to David there are five hundred and eighty-five years, and from David to the second year of Vespasian one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine; then from this to the tenth year of Antoninus seventy-seven years; so that from Moses to the tenth year of Antoninus there are one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three years in all. Others, counting to the death of Commodus from Inachus and Moses, said there were one thousand eight hundred and forty-two years, and others …. And in the Gospel according to Matthew the genealogy from Abraham is carried down to Mary the mother of the Lord; for, it says, “from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ likewise another fourteen generations,” three mystic intervals completed in six sevens.