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TREATISE

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CHRONOLOGY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

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ORDO SÆCLORUM.

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TREATISE

ON THE

CHRONOLOGY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES:

AND THE INDICATIONS THEREIN CONTAINED

OF A

DIVINE PLAN OF TIMES AND SEASONS:

TOGETHER WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

A COMPENDIUM OF THE PRINCIPAL INSTITUTES OF CHRONOLOGY.

IL AN EXAMINATION OF MR. GRESWELL'S SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGY AND
HYPOTHESIS RELATIVE TO THE JULIAN CALENDAR.

III. DISSERTATIONS ON THE ANCIENT CHRONOGRAPHIES OF ASIA AND EGYPT.
IV. OUTLINES OF A CHRONOLOGICAL HARMONY OF THE FOUR GOSPELS.

V. AN ESSAY ON THE DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF PROPHECY.

BY HENRY BROWNE, M.A.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE DIOCESAN COLLEGE, CHICHESTER:
CANON OF WALTHAM IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE
LORD BISHOP, OF CHICHESTER.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XLIV.

III.849

-AH-3962-46

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Jud 2155.84+

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

NOV 1 1880

Harker Fund.

THE CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

1. APOLOGY for the present undertaking. 2-6. Survey of materials for

the construction of Scripture Chronology. 7, 8. Schemes of Ussher and Petavius:

their basis. 9. Mr. Clinton's scheme described. 10. How the present differs from

it. 11-14. Singular facts involved in this scheme: cannot be ascribed to human

artifice. 15. General probability, from analogy of nature, that such facts are part

of a Divine Plan. Scripture intimates the existence of such a Plan. 16. Its reality,

how evidenced. 17-22. Importance of these results. Apologetic use.

scepticism. Uses to faith. Caution.

Modern

p. 1-24.

PART I.

HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

P. 25-94.

SECTION I. On the Time of Christ's Nativity. P. 25–52.

§ 23. Elements of the question. 24-28. Time of Herod's death ascertained

from Josephus. 29-31. Confirmatory arguments. 32-37. The Sacerdotal Cycle

described and applied to the determination of this question

p. 25-36.

APPENDIX I. On the Dates assigned to the Nativity by the early Christian

Writers. § 38-47

p. 37-39.

APPENDIX II. On the Amoypapi, or Census, at the time of the Nativity.

§ 48, 49. S. Luke vindicated. 50. Text not corrupt. 51-53. Grammar of the

passage: Bp. Middleton's interpretation, Mr. Greswell's. How the passage must be

rendered. 54-58. The droуpapn was part of a general Census: Quirinus com-

missioner for Syria. Tertullian's statement.

NOTE. Sanclemente's argument in support of this explanation.

APPENDIX III. On the Star of the Magi.

p. 40-49.

§ 59. Kepler's hypothesis.

60. Revived by Dr. Münter. 61. Advocated by Ideler. 62. Remarks. p. 50–52.