APPENDIX.

I. A COMPENDIUM of the principal INSTITUTES OF CHRONOLOGY.

SECTION I. Preliminary Definitions. § 395–399. The natural day; tropical
year: lunar month: years, solar and lunar, of the Ancients.

SECTION II. § 400. The Julian Calendar.

SECTION III. § 401. The Egyptian Calendar.

SECTION IV. § 402. The Macedonian and Syrian Calendars.

SECTION V. The Ancient Hebrew Calendar: Principles of Lunar Calcu-

lation: Ancient Paschal Cycles. § 403. Form of the Hebrew year. 404. Sabbath.

405, 406. Hebrew day. 407. Months. Principle of adjustment of lunar to solar

year. 408. New Moons. 409. Epoch of year two-fold. Mosaic Festivals: Pascha.

411. Principle of Calculation. 412. Feast of Weeks. 413, 414. New Moon of Tisri,

and Day of Atonement. 415. Tabernacles. 416. Names of months after Exile.

417-419. Regulation of Calendar in times of Second Temple. 420, 421. Other

holy days. 422. Jewish æras. 423. Reduction of Jewish to Julian dates.

424. Ancient Paschal Cycles: Octaëteris. 425-431. The Canon of S. Hippolytus

described proof of its antiquity. 432. A similar canon of S. Cyprian. 433. Use
of the octaeteris and other cycles.

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SECTION VI. Chronological æras and their epochs. § 434. Olympiads.

435. Anni Urbis Conditæ. 436. Consular Reckoning. 437-439. Era of Nabo-

nassar. 440-442. Æra of Seleucidæ. 443. The Julian Period. 444-447. The

solar cycle: calculation of week-days. 448-558. Description of the following

Tables: I. For the calculation of mean paschal full moon. II. For the reduc-

tion of Jewish to Julian dates. III. Calculation of true paschal full moon A. D. 29.

IV. Table of Dominical Letters, for any year B. C. or A. D. old style. V. To

find, at sight, the week-day of any Julian day. VI. To find the interval from a

given day to a given day. VII. To reduce Julian years into days and into cyclical

periods
p. 455-509.

II. REMARKS on the SCHEME of SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGY constructed by

Mr GRESWELL in his "Dissertations on the Harmony of the Gospels,"

and more especially on that Writer's Hypothesis of an Interruption in

the Julian Calendar.

§ 456. Cardinal dates of Mr Greswell's scheme. 457. The initial synchronism
not proved, but assumed. Period from Adam to Abraham. 458. Date A. M. of
Exode, how obtained. 459. Date B. C. of Exode, how obtained. 460. Erroneous
assumption on sabbatical and jubilean cycle. 461. Purpose for which this Writer
went into a discussion of Old Testament Chronology. 462-467. Mr Greswell's
date of the Nativity, how obtained. 468. Date of the Passion. 469. Hypothesis of
an interruption in the Julian Calendar: its object. 470. The question clearly
stated. 471. If the fact be so, the object still not obtained. 472, 473. Source of
the confusion on this subject. 474. But the fact is not so. Perpetuity of Julian
reckoning proved-on general grounds. 475. By dates of eclipses, &c. 476. By
recorded synchronisms of week-days with Julian days. 477-479. Mr Greswell's
proofs examined.

NOTE. On the Accuracy of the Ancient Jewish Calendar. § 480. Synchro-

nisms of Jewish with week-days. 481, 482. Dates in Josephus's history of the

assault of Cestius Gallus, and beginning of Jewish war. 483 486. Other dates

in the history of the war. TABLE of the Jewish and Julian months from A.D.

66 to 70...
p. 510-545.

HI.

The CHRONOGRAPHIES of the ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, and EGYP-
TIANS, examined and compared with the Scriptures. P. 546-633.

SECTION I. Assyrian and Babylonian Chronology.

$487. Interest of the enquiry. 488. Names of Assyrian kings recorded

in Scripture. 489, 490. Information obtained from Berosus and Abydenus.

491, 492. Construction of Chronology from Sennacherib to overthrow of Assyrian

Empire. 493. Interesting coincidences with Scripture. 494, 495. Confusion of

accounts relative to Sennacherib and Esarhaddon. 496. The Babylonian Canon.

Merodach Baladan. 497. The Median Revolt. (NOTE: On the books of Tobit

and Judith.) 498. Median Chronology of Ctesias compared with Herodotus: is

part of an artificial scheme; annus magnus of 1460 years. 499. Epoch of Semi-

ramis. 500. Artificial structure of the period before Semiramis. 501. Date of

Median Invasion of Babylon, artificial but not far from the truth. The period of

473,000 years explained. The compound Sossus. 502. From the Deluge to æra

of Nabonassar (Berosus): artificial structure detected. 503. From Creation to

Deluge: basis the same. 504. Results, compared with Scripture. 505. Scheme of

Georgius Syncellus.

p. 546-566,

NOTE I. Indian Chronography. § 506. The four Yugas in their original

form. 507. Based on the compound Sossus....
p. 566-568.

NOTE II. Chinese Chronography. § 508. Description of Chinese year, and

sexagesimal cycle of years and days. Dynasties. Epoch of Chinese history.

509. The entire Chronography based on the compound Sossus. Epoch compared

with Scripture.

SECTION II. Egyptian Chronology. P. 571-633.

p. 568-571.

$ 510. Sources of information. 511-513, Period from Cambyses up to Shishak
(contemp. with Rehoboam.) 514. Probable that some memory of the events con-
nected with Exode of Israel would be preserved-in what forms. 515. Epoch of
18th dynasty determined. 516. Manetho's story of the Hyksos: 517. a disguise of
the history of Israelites in Egypt. 518. Egyptian date of their expulsion ascertained.
519. Coincidence of the epoch of the 18th dynasty with our Scripture Chronology.
520. Manetho's story of the lepers. 521. Travestied from the Scripture account,
Duration of Shepherd tyranny: its epoch-surprising coincidence with our Scripture
Chronology. 522-526. Other versions of the story: Chæremon, Lysimachus,
Diodorus, Tacitus. 527. Summary of results: 528. applied to explanation of
Manetho: 529. of Old Chronicle: 530, and Herodotus. 531. Who built the
Pyramids ? 532. The Old Chronicle: is based upon the compound Sossus.
533. Genesis of the scheme in detail: epoch of Menes. 534. List of Eratos-
thenes: based upon the same measure. 535. Epoch of Menes is artificial. Time
of Demigods explained. 536. Antemundane periods of Old Chronicle, Sum of

years from Helius to Alexander is artificial; how generated. 537. Manetho's

Second Book: its relation to the Chronicle: based like it upon the compound

Sossus artifices of its construction. 541. List of Eratosthenes compared with

Old Chronicle and Manetho. 542, 543. Nitocris and the Pyramid-builders.

544. Genesis of the period contained in Manetho's First Book. Period from Menes

to Sesostris, and to Alexander; framed upon the compound Sossus. 545-549. Exa-
mination of Book I. in detail: its historical substance detected. 550. Time of Gods
and Demigods. (NOTE: On the list of Diodorus). 551. Remarks on the Monu-
ments. 552. Epoch of Sesostris and of Sothiac Cycle. 553. Table of Abydos.
554. Servitude of Israelites in Egypt. 555. The Pyramid-builders

p. 571-604.

On the Connexion of the Egyptian Mythus of Osiris and Typhon with the
History of Joseph and the Exode.

§ 556, 557. Story of Osiris and Typhon how connected with the Israelites.

558, 559.
And both with story of Shepherds. 560. Horus and Harpocrates.

561. Account of the former in the Rosetta inscription. 562-564. Deification of

Apis, at the time of the Exode. 565. The remarkable story of Mycerinus.

566. A curious fact connected with Egyptian Calendar confirms these results.

567. Conclusion.....

p. 604-613.

TABLES. 568-570. The Egyptian Dynasties of Manetho, according to

Africanus and according to Eusebius. 571. Dynasty of Gods and Demigods:

Manetho. 572. Another, according to Eusebius. 573. The Old Egyptian Chro-

nicle. 574. Castor's summary. 575. List of Eratosthenes.

herds and 18th dynasty reported from Manetho by Josephus.

on this and other lists of the 18th dynasty

576. List of Shep-

577-581. Remarks

p. 614-633.

IV. OUTLINES of a CHRONOLOGICAL HARMONY of the GOSPEL HISTORY of

our LORD'S MINISTRY; with an Attempt to explain the Structure of

that Part of the First Gospel which is included between the Baptism

of Christ and the Martyrdom of John the Baptist.

§ 582. Recapitulation of Evidence for the Dates assigned to the Passion and

the Baptism of our Lord: additional argument relative to John vi. 4. Object of

the present inquiry. 583, 584. Basis of the Harmony. Relation of fourth Gospel

to first three. 585. A peculiarity of S. Luke's Gospel, (Note). 586. Analysis of

Contents of first three Gospels, down to the Martyrdom of John. 587. Discrepancies

of Matthew's order from other two. 588. How this order is formed. 589. One source

of these discrepancies discovered. 590-592. Theory to account for the present order

of S. Matthew's Gospel, (Note: not Whiston's hypothesis revived). 593, 594. Ad-

justment of harmonized narrative of first three to fourth Gospel. (Note: Journal

of Passion-week). Calendar of Jewish and Julian Dates from the Baptism to

the Pentecost. The HARMONY, from the Baptism to the beginning of Passion-

Week. 595. Remarks; the interval from Passover to first Pentecost sufficient for

the series of incidents described. 596, 597. On the oaßßarov devtepóπpwtov.

598. From Pentecost to Tabernacles. The day of parables considered, 599. Mission

of Apostles the five thousand: Herod's ignorance of Christ. 600, 601. From

Tabernacles to Encænia, and to Passover...........

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...p. 634-663.

V. OUTLINES of an Essay on the Nature, Intent, and Complex Structure

of PROPHECY.

§ 602. Three orders of Prophecy :-The Promise, The Liturgical Prophecy,

The Vision of the Day of the Lord. 603. Conjuncture at which the third order

begins. 604. General purport and substance of the Vision as a whole: 605. Com-

pared with actual fulfilment hitherto. 606. Phenomena, seeming continuity and

apparent exaggeration, how to be explained. Principle of relations derived from

notion of vision. 607. The four crises. 608. Prophets before and during the

Exile:-idea most clearly exhibited in Daniel; then in Zechariah: traces in earliest

Prophets, Joel and Amos. Complex sense. 609. Christ's Prophecy, follows same

law. 610. And Apocalypse: especially in portraiture of the Beast. 611. Same

idea traced in other terms of Prophecy. 612. An important application. Messiah's

kingdom, how understood by different classes of expositors. 613. The question

considered in connexion with principle of relations. 614. Zion, Jerusalem, Israel,

in the Prophets, do not exclusively denote the Christian Church. 615. Objections

to the "spiritual" interpretation. (Note: On a passage of Justin Martyr.)

p. 663-675.

On Daniel's Visions of the Four Empires.

§ 616. Objections to the commonly-received Interpretation of the Vision of the

Image. 617, 618. Interpretation of the Four Beasts.
p. 675-679.

On the Time of the Apocalypse.

§ 619. Traditions respecting the author and date, conflicting. 620. A note of

time in chap. xi. 621. A more important one in chap. xvii, the seven heads. Nero
expected to return as Antichrist; this notion must have been derived from the
Apocalypse. 622. Hence an inference as to the date. 623, 624. Opinions of the
Ancients on this subject. Note: The notion was not derived from the apocryphal
Ascensio Esaia. Earliest mention in the Sibylline Oracles
p. 679-685.

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Hints for the Study of Prophecy: Principle of Relations applied.

§ 626. Epoch of the order of the Prophets, beginning with Jonah, coincides

with a remarkable conjuncture of History.

§ 627, 628. Sign of Jonas the Prophet. 629. Wherein the sign consists.

630, 631. Significance of the symbol in reference to the system of Prophecy.

§ 632-636. Joel. 637-640. Amos.

§ 641-644. Hosea, first three chapters.

§ 645-648. Isaiah, first six chapters..

CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS........

p. 685-700.

..p. 701-704.