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for over a decade before the actual Jewish year '1843' began, Miller realized that the prophesied 2300th year would not end until sometime in the common, civil, calendar year 1844, for he reckoned '1843' to be on the basis of the 'Jewish sacred year', which he understood extended from spring to spring. This he calculated as approximately from equinox to equinox, or March 21, 1843, to March 21, 1844. However, it was not until Miller's 'Jewish year 1843' ran out (in the spring of 1844) that the great majority of the Millerites began to pay serious heed to a few insistent voices in their midst. These had been trying to demonstrate that 2300 years from 457 BC would terminate over in the Jewish year '1844', not within the year '1844'. (The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. IV, 790-1)
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