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With regard to Christ's First Advent, the details of Daniel's prophetic chronology were easily discernible using the day/year theory; but what remained a mystery was the culmination of the 2,300-day period. Speculation about this date filled the pages of innumerable Bible commentaries, but it was not until the nineteenth century that these calculations became a major controversy. (73:2) When Bible scholars and commentators began to assert that the end of the 2,300 days might correspond to the approaching year of 1844, or some other close approaching date, the idea naturally gained a great deal of attention. Many Christian ministers, both in America and throughout Europe, examined the possibilities of these prophecies. Some concluded, and began to preach, that Christ would return in or around the year 1844. For example, in 1829, The Revd P. Homan writes, 'According to the best commentators, this decree was made in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, AD 457: consequently, the 2,300 days, reckoned from this, terminate in AD 1843'.
(73:3)
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