CONTENTS OF THE LETTER. A large Sheet exhibiting a calculation from the Bible, proving the exact time of the birth, anointing or baptism, death, and resurrection of the Most Holy the Messiah the Prince. (To face the Preface.) Introductory Remarks...................... On the ages of Nahor, Terah, and Abraham ...... On Cainan of the Septuagint and St. Luke ......... On the corruptions in the Chronology, &c., of the Septuagint and Josephus The Identity of Melchi-zedek, king of Salem, with Shem, Noah's son... On the length of time from the Exodus or departure from Egypt, to the On the number Seven: and on the Prophecy of the seventy weeks con- Explanation of the foregoing translations, with computations from the ......... On the period of time that elapsed from the death of Julius Cæsar to the ......... 47 On the period of time from the second year of Cyrus to the birth of ......... The time from the Creation of Adam to the birth of Christ Proofs given that 3969 years is the true time that elapsed from the ...... On the eclipse said to have happened at the death of Julius Cæsar On the exact time of Christ's birth and crucifixion, with a calculation of the Olympiads, from their commencement to the destruction of On the error of twenty-five years too much at the beginning of the On the twelve parts mentioned in the II. Esdras, xiv., 11, 12, shewing the time from the Creation of Adam to the destruction of Jerusalem 106 On the signification of the term "Beast" as used in Scripture Observations on Halley's Comet, &c., proving an error of fifteen years too much in the Christian era............................. On the second coming, or personal appearance, of Christ upon earth, and On the common opinion relative to the creation of the world and man in six days of twenty-four hours each, with proofs that it is incorrect An explanation of the prophetical character of the Six Days' Creation... A literal translation, from the Hebrew, of the first chapter of Genesis, On the work of the Six Days, and the rest on the Seventh Day, as men- tioned in the first and second chapters of Genesis, showing that it was prophetical of the creation of mankind, during the first seven On the figurative and prophetical signification of the words "Evening and Morning" as used in the account of the Creation, in the first A Compendium of Chronology, from the era of the Creation of Adam to the year of the Beast 666; or the year in which the Apostle John wrote the Revelation, being the fifth year of Domitian..................... A succinct view of the Chronology of the Bible, as calculated by the Author, from the Creation of Adam to the destruction of Jerusalem, with the Chronologies of W. Cuninghame and James Usher............ 92 Explanation of Arithmetical signs A large Sheet exhibiting the calculation of the Prophetical Numbers of ...... WILLIAM CUNINGHAME, ESQ., OF LAINSHAW, IN THE COUNTY OF AYR. HAVING read the books written by thee, entitled "Fulness of the Times," with Supplement, and Supplementary Dissertation on the Scriptural Chronology; (any other of thy publications I have not seen,) and as I have made the prophetical numbers and the chronology of the Bible my particular study for many years, I have considered it my duty to address thee on the conclusions at which thou hast arrived, and to submit to thee some things that I consider worthy of thy research in Scriptural chronology. These two books which I have mentioned as lately written by thee, I have found useful, and I have no doubt they will be of use to future students in Scriptural chronology; although they may, with regard to thy method of explaining and calculating the prophetic numbers, and thy series of Jubilean periods, consider it right to lay aside as untenable some of thy arguments, calculations, and conclusions, and to object to thy charge against the Jewish scribes, for having intentionally corrupted the Hebrew text, as far as its chronology is concerned. B |