Miller and his followers set to work to study their proof again. By summer they discovered that Christ would come, not in the spring, but in the autumn of 1844.
The amended date is thus announced: " That which led to this... was the discovery that the decree of Artaxerxes for the restoration, which formed part of the starting point for the period of 2,300 days, went into effect in the autumn of the year B.c. 457, and not at the beginning of the year, as had been formerly believed. Reckoning from the autumn of 457, the 2,300 years terminate in the autumn of 1844."
Then, as if to court destruction, the theory was next invented that the Sanctuary was to be cleansed on the tenth day of the Seventh (Jewish) month, which in 1844 fell on the 22nd of October. This they took from the date on which the Great Day of Atonement falls.