Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews 8
We must pin down the dates for Christ's predicted and future birth, his passion, and the extermination of Jerusalem — that is, its devastation. Daniel says the holy city and the Holy One are to be exterminated along with the coming leader, and the pinnacle destroyed to the point of ruin (Daniel 9:24-27). So we must investigate the times of the coming leader Christ in Daniel; once we calculate them, we will prove he came — from the prescribed times, the fitting signs, and his works. We prove this from the events announced to follow his advent, so that we may believe everything foretold has been fulfilled as well as foreseen. Thus Daniel prophesied about him to show both when and at what time he would liberate the nations, and that after Christ's passion this city would be exterminated.
He says: 'In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who ruled the Chaldean kingdom, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years. While I was still praying, the man Gabriel — whom I had seen in the earlier vision — came flying, touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice, gave me understanding, and spoke: "Daniel, I have come now to give you insight. At the start of your plea the word went out, and I came to tell you, because you are a man of desires. Consider the word and understand the vision." (Daniel 9:24-27). Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city, until transgression is finished, sin sealed up, iniquity atoned for, everlasting righteousness brought in, vision and prophet sealed, and the Holy of Holies anointed (Daniel 9:24-27). You will know, discern, and understand from the issuing of the word: restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem until Christ the leader — seven and a half weeks, and seventy-two and a half weeks. It will be turned and rebuilt with joy and a trench, and the times renewed. After those seventy-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and cease to be; the city and the sanctuary will be exterminated with the coming leader, and they will be cut off like a flood until the end of the war, which is decreed to the point of destruction. And he will confirm the covenant with many (Daniel 9:24-27).
Latin
Itaque requirenda tempora praedictae et futurae nativitatis Christi, et passionis ejus, et exterminii civitatis Hierusalem, id est, vastationis ejus. Dicit enim Daniel et civitatem sanctam et sanctum exterminari cum duce venturo, et destrui pinnaculum usque ad interitum. Venturi itaque Christi ducis sunt tempora requirenda, quae investigabimus in Daniele: quibus computatis, probabimus venisse cum, etiam ex temporibus praescriptis, et ex signis competentibus, et ex operationibus ejus: quae probamus ex consequentibus quae post adventum ejus futura adnuntiabantur, ut tam adimpleta omnia quam prospecta credamus. Sic igitur de eo Daniel praedicavit, ut et quando et quo in tempore gentes esset liberaturus, ostenderet, et quoniam post passionem Christi ista civitas exterminari haberet. Dicit enim sic: In primo anno sub Dario filio Assueri ex semine Medorum, qui regnavit super regnum Chaldaeorum, ego Daniel intellexi in libris numerum annorum. Et adhuc me loquente in oratione, ecce vir Gabriel, quem vidi in visione in principio, volans, et tetigit me, quasi hora sacrificii vespertini, et intelligere fecit me, et locutus est mecum, et dixit: «Daniel, nunc exivi imbuere te intelligentia, in principio obsecrationis tuae exivit sermo. Et ego veni ut annuntiem tibi, quia vir desideriorum tu es, et cogita in verbo, et intellige in visione.» Septuaginta hebdomadae breviatae sunt super plebem tuam, et super civitatem sanctam, quoadusque inveteretur delictum, et signentur peccata, et exorentur injustitiae, et inducatur justitia aeterna, ut et signetur visio et prophetes, et ut ungatur Sanctus sanctorum. Et scies, et perspicies et intelliges a profectione sermonis, integrando et reaedificando Hierusalem usque ad Christum ducem, hebdomadas septem et dimidiam, et septuaginta duas et dimidiam: et convertet, et aedificabitur in laetitiam, et convallationem, et innovabuntur tempora: et post hebdomadas has septuaginta duas, et exterminabitur unctio, et non erit: et civitatem et sanctum exterminabit cum duce adveniente, et concidentur quomodo in cataclysmo usque ad finem belli, quod concidetur usque ad interitum. Et confirmabit testamentum in multis.