Benito Perera was a Spanish Jesuit who wrote a commentary on Daniel in 1588. He said that he knows of seven views as to which date the Seventy Weeks or 490 years until Christ must start.

The Adventist one is presented in his list at (5) on page 487.

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Name of his book online: Benedicti Pererij Valentini e Societate Iesu. Centum octoginta tres disputationes selectissimae super libro Apocalypsis beati Ioannis Apostoli. Quibus adiectae sunt ab eodem auctore viginti tres disputationes, aduersus eos qui putarunt, Maometem Saracenorum legislatorem fuisse verum illum Antichristum. Venetijs: apud Antonium Leonardum. 1607.

 

Daniel 9:24-27 seven views, says Benito Perera in 1588 page 484ff. for the starting year of the 70 weeks prophecy

1.     Nicolai de Lyra 4th year of Zedekia (p. 484).

2.     Tertullian First year of Darius the Mede (p. 484-485).

3.     Clement of Alexandria First year of Cyrus (p. 486).

4.     Eusebius Second Year of Darius Hystapes (p. 486).

5.     Seventh year of Artaxerxes according to Ezra 7. (p. 487).

Quinta opinion, exordium harum hebdomadum coepit a septimo anno regis Artaxerxis qui Esdram missit in Judaeram, cum amplissimis muneribus, ad reformandum ornadumque Dei cultum et corrupram Judaeorum disciplinam. Estat historia haec apud Esdram cap. 7.

The fifth opinion is that the beginning of these weeks began in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, who sent Ezra into Judea with the most extensive duties to reform the worship of God and the corruption of the Jews. There is this story in Ezra chapter 7. Suffragatur mihi Severus Sulpitius libro secondo facrae historiae. “Severus Sulpitius, the second book of the great history, is subscribed to me”.

6.     Joseph Scaligeri second year of Darius Nothi (p. 488).

7.     Julius Africanus, Hieronimus Chrysostom, Theodoretus, Dionysius Carthusianus, Ioannes Zonaras, Bede, Ruperti, Antoninus, Petrus Galatinus, Ioannes Lucidus, and others. To the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus. (p. 489).

Obiectio, an ante Nehemiam adificata fuerit seu refecta urbs hierusalem

Objection, whether the city of Jerusalem was built or rebuilt before Nehemiah (p. 490). 

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