II. Epistles of S. Peter. § 132. S. Peter suffered at Rome. 133. Fiction of
an early visit to Rome. 134. When at Corinth. 135, 136. First Epistle. Babylon
means Rome. 137. Silvanus or Silas. 138. Internal evidence. 139 The Second
Epistle: disparity of style, how to be accounted for.

III. Epistles of S. James and S. Jude. §140, 141.

The Gospel of S. Matthew. § 143. Originally written in Hebrew. 144. Source
of Evangelium Hebræorum. 145–147. Our Greek version: author unknown, but
made before A. D. 60. The original perhaps before a. D. 41.

S. Mark and S. Luke. § 148, 149. Notices respecting S. Mark reconciled.

150. Time of S. Luke's Gospel and Acts. 151. Hence of S. Mark's.

Gospel and Epistles of S. John. 152-154. Notices relative to this Evangelist,

and time of his Gospel. 155. First Epistle, when written. 156. To whom?

157. The second and third Epistles: their object. 158. Second, to whom ad-

dressed?

$159. SUMMARY OF DATES.

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p 127-163.

CHAPTER III.

FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO THE BEGINNING

OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. P. 164-220.

SECTION I. The Chronology of the Chaldean and Persian Times of the Old

Testament, from the Epoch of the Captivity to the Close of the Canon.

P. 164-203.

§ 161. Canon of Ptolemy: epoch of Jehoiachin ascertained. 162. Hence 4th

Jehoiakim, which is the Scripture epoch of Nebuchadnezzar. 163. Confirmation

of this result. 164-166. Minute investigation of the epoch of Nebuchadnezzar.

167. Tabular view of the synchronisms. 168-171. Epoch in Jeremiah and Kings

differs from, Daniel's epoch agrees with, the Canon. Berosus accounts for

the fact.

$172, 173. Scripture epoch of Cyrus: differs from the Canon, which omits Darius

the Mede. 174. Capture of Babylon, different accounts. 175, 176. Herodotus and

Xenophon: the latter agrees with Daniel: his Cyaxares is the Darius of Scripture.

177-179. Abydenus and Æschylus recognize this Darius. He reigned but a year

or two. 180, 181. Josephus's list of Babylonian kings compared with the Canon.

p. 164-178.

Chronology of the Prophecies of Jeremiah. § 182. The order apparently con-

fused, but proceeds upon a plan. Entire collection consists of seven portions.

Description of these, with their dates
p. 178-187.

Chronology of Ezekiel. § 183. The arrangement is mostly chronological, but

also systematic, according to subjects. Description of plan, contents, and chro-

nology.
p. 187-194.

p. 194-198.

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Chronology of Daniel. § 184. Plan, contents, and times.

Ezra, Esther, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. § 185. Dates

in Ezra i-iv. 186, 187. Darius Hystaspes, Epoch of his reign: Scripture dates

it from re-conquest of Babylon: second fulfilment of the prophecy of 70 years.

188. Hence explain dates in Ezra, Haggai, and Zechariah. 189. History of

Esther: Ahasuerus = Xerxes dates. 190-192. Epoch of Artaxerxes Longimanus :

why important to be ascertained. Canon corrected by aid of Ctesias and Thu-

cydides: dates.

p. 198-203.

SECTION II. Times of the Syro-Grecian Kings, especially of ANTIOCHUS

EPIPHANES, and of the MACCABEES.

§ 193. Prophetical interest of this period. 194. The Second Empire of Pro-

phecy : Alexander. 195–201. Fulfilment of Daniel xi. 6—20, traced historically with

dates. 202-206. Times of Antiochus Epiphanes, and the Maccabees. p. 204-211.

APPENDIX to CHAPTER III. On the Dates of the Capture of the Temple
by POMPEY, and afterwards by HEROD.

§ 207. Dates given by Josephus. 208. Herod and Sosius took the Temple,

B.C. 37, 10th Tisri: Dion reconciled with Josephus. 209. Pompey, B. c. 64, same

day. 210. Difficulty, arising from the fact that Josephus assigns it to Consulate

of Cicero, which = B. c. 63. Explained by state of Roman Calendar at that time.

211. Objections solved. 212. Death of Mithridates. 213. Birth-day of Augustus.

p. 212-220.

CHAPTER IV.

FROM THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOMS OF ISRAEL AND

JUDAH TO THE SEVENTY YEARS' CAPTIVITY.

P. 221-253.

§ 214-217. Principle of synchronisms ascertained. 218-224. Applied to the

construction of the period as a whole. 225. Hence epoch of Rehoboam determined

within certain limits: accurately defined by a passage of Ezekiel.

p. 221-230.

§ 226-231. Construction of the Chronology in detail, with solutions of diffi-

culties, down to the end of the kingdom of Israel. 232-235. Continuation, to the

4th of Jehoiakim.

p. 230-248.

APPENDIX. Chronology of the Prophets who lived before the Exile.

236. Jonah, Joel, Amos, Hosea.

dates, of his Prophecies. 238. Micah.

237. Isaiah: arrangement, contents, and

239. Nahum, Zephaniah, Habakkuk.

p. 248-253.

CHAPTER V.

FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM.

P. 254-294.

§ 240. General survey of this period: examination of the passage in Acts xiii,

which is the basis of this part of the Chronology. 241. S. Paul's epoch of Samuel,

the Day of Mizpeh. 242, 243. Connexion between the Book of Judges and 1 Samuel.

244, 245. Cardinal dates hence resulting......

p. 254-259.

SECTION I. From the Day of Mizpeh to the Schism.

§ 246. Saul did not reign forty years: meaning of the statement in Acts xiii.

247-249. Probable length of reign determined by combination of particulars.

250-252. Detailed construction of Chronology....

SECTION II. From the Exodus to the Death of Moses.

p. 260-265.

$253. Life of Moses: Plagues of Egypt. 254. Exact dates connected with

Exode. (Note: On the localities.) 255. Arrival at Sin, at Sinai, giving of Law,

Moses twice on the Mount forty days. 257, 258. From the erection of the Taber-

nacle to the judgment at Kadesh. 259. Period of wandering: Korah's rebellion.

260. Route of Israelites, and list of stations, explained

p. 266-272.

SECTION III. Times of Joshua and the Judges.

261. Passage of Jordan: fall of Jericho. 262. War of occupation in the

South. 263. War in the North: followed by war upon the Anakim. 264. Time

of war on Anakim. 265. Division of lands. 266. Convocation at Shiloh, and at

Shechem. 267. Book of Judges, how connected with Joshua. 268. Detailed Chro-

nology of Joshua and Judges. 269. Place of latter chapters of Judges.

RUTH. § 270. Time of this history. Difficulty connected with genealogy.

271. The 'Paxaẞ of S. Matthew probably not Rahab of Jericho: how to be ex-

plained.......
p. 273-286.

SECTION IV. On Sabbatical and Jubilean Years.

§ 272. The Sabbatical cycle may afford a chronological indication. 273. The

ordinance of Sabbath-year and jubile described. 274. Hypothesis of the Gaonim.

275. Epoch of Cycle, on the supposition that 1586 is the true year of the Exode.

276-278. List of sabbatical years in times of Second Temple, calculated from this

epoch. Agrees with historical notices of Sabbath-years. 279. Jeremiah xxxiv. 8.

relates to a jubile. 280. Isaiah xxvii. 30. to a Sabbath-year

p. 287-294.

CHAPTER VI.

FROM THE CALL OF ABRAHAM TO THE EXODE.

§ 281. Exodus xii. 40. the 430 years, how understood by the Jews (Jose-

phus, the LXX, the Samaritans). The question decided by S. Paul. Objections

of modern critics. 282. The argument from population refuted. Numbers of

Israel at the time of the Exode, how ascertained. Average term of doubling.

283-287. The genealogies remarkably attest the same fact. 288. The precise day

from which the 430 years are reckoned. 289, 290. Detailed Chronology to the return

of Jacob from Padan-aram. 292-294. The history of Joseph not placed in the

order of time: reasons for this: beautiful consistency of the narrative. 295. De-

tailed Chronology.
p. 295-317.

CHAPTER VII.

FROM THE CREATION OF ADAM TO THE CALL OF

ABRAHAM. P. 318-351.

SECTION I. Genuine Hebrew Chronology of this Period.

$296, 297. Survey of materials. Abraham born when Terah was (not 75 but)

135 years old. (Note: how this was understood by the Ancients.) 298. Time

of Genesis xv. between two periods of 430 years each. 299. Epoch of the first

period. 300. Exact duration of the antediluvian period. Equation between Anno

Mundi and Era B. C. 301. Detailed Chronology from Adam to the Flood.

302. Death of Abel-birth of Seth-Lamech the Cainite. 303. Dates in the history

of the Flood. 304. Detailed Chronology from the Flood to the Promise. 306. Notice

concerning Peleg: significance of his name and of the place which he occupies

in the genealogy. Hence a conjecture of the time of Dispersion of Nations.

Tabular view of the Patriarchal lives, from Adam to Jacob............ p. 318–329.

SECTION II. Examination of the Alexandrine and Samaritan Chronologies.

§ 307. Tabular view of the Hebrew, Alexandrine, and Samaritan texts of the

Genealogies: various readings of the LXX. (Note: on the second Cainan in

LXX. and S. Luke.) 308. Chronology of LXX. prevailed in early Church; excep-

tions. Council of Trent. Vossius, Jackson, and other advocates of LXX.

309, 310. Their objections to the Masoretic Chronology examined. 311. What

induced the Alexandrine Jews to enlarge the Chronology. 312. General de-

scription of their procedure. 313-317. Facts which betoken the existence of

design in the fabrication of both schemes of the LXX. 318. Argument hence

resulting. 319-321. Early Chronology of Josephus examined: proof that he fol-

lowed the Hebrew, and that his text has been violently adapted to the LXX.

322-325. Schemes of Demetrius, Theoph. Ant., Clement Alexandrinus, and

Africanus. 326. The Samaritan scheme; procedure of its fabrication....p. 330–358.

END OF PART I.

PART II.

MYSTICAL CHRONOLOGY, OR, DIVINE ECONOMY

OF TIMES AND SEASONS.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE ECONOMY DESCRIBED IN THE INTRODUCTION.

$327. The question stated. 328. Parallelism of Flood with end of Mosaic

Dispensation. 329. The Mosaic Dispensation; its cycles. 330. The term of forty

years. 331. The double period of 430 years. Is an exact measure of Abrahamic

alov. Corollaries......
p. 359-377.

CHAPTER II.

DANIEL'S PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS.

§ 332. The period is part of a system. Occasion of the Prophecy. Literal

translation. 333. Remarks on its designed obscurity. 334, 335. Epoch of the

Seventy Weeks. 336, 337. The seven weeks, at what conjuncture they end.

338. The 62 weeks and half week. Import of the 3 years. 339. Connexion with

predicted time of Antichrist. First Fulfilment in the end of the Mosaic alv.

340. Manifold fulfilment of the last half-week. 341. A type of Antichrist in the

end of the Abrahamic aiwv.........

p. 378 393.

CHAPTER III.

OTHER MORE PRECISE AND MORE RECONDITE ECONOMIES

INVOLVED IN THE GENERAL SCHEME.

§342. "The fulness of time:" the year of Jubile. 343. "Supremus Dies" of

Mosaic αιών. 344-352. Economies chiefly connected with the period of the

Seventy Weeks. 353-357. NOTE: On the symbolical sense involved in S. Luke's

History of the Nativities. 358-361. Times and Seasons relating to the Temple

and Daily Sacrifice. 362-372. Traces of similar economies in the earlier periods

of the history. 373-375. Further considerations on the Prophecy of the Seventy

Weeks. 376-384. Times of Antiochus Epiphanes, or Last Days of the Second

Empire. 385. CONCLUSION. The argument stated. Scripture intimations of a

Plan of Times and Seasons

p. 394-435.

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SUPPLEMENT.

TIMES OF THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.

386. Isaiah's Prophecy of Immanuel; its meaning in reference to Israel.

387. Economical measure of the times of the Kingdom of Israel: Isaiah and Ezekiel.

388-390. Economies belonging to this Prophecy. 391, 392. "The Sign of Jonas

the Prophet." 392. The two Witnesses. 393. Elijah the Prophet. 394. Further

consideration of Ezekiel's Period
p. 436-451.

END OF PART II.