Category: History - Religious
1. Discrepancies of the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Samaritan Texts—Solution of the difficulty by the chronographers of the middle ages—Consistency of the Septuagint and the New Testament—Numerical errors of the Hebrew text 9
1. Discrepancies of the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Samaritan Texts—Solution of the difficulty by the chronographers of the middle ages—Consistency of the Septuagint and the New Tes...
3. CHAPTER II.—EXTENT OF THE SECOND AGE OF THE WORLD.1. Discrepancies of the three texts—Unfounded hypothesis of Usher—Agreement of Josephus with the Septuagint—Authority of this Version in the Church—Its chronology confirmed by t...
4. CHAPTER III.—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HEBREW AND SEPTUAGINT CHRONOLOGIES.1. Argument against the shorter computation, founded on the proportion between the Antepaidogonian Ages and whole Lives of the Patriarchs—Reasons for the enlargement of this rat...
5. CHAPTER IV.—EXTENT OF THE THIRD AGE OF THE WORLD.6. CHAPTER V.—EXTENT OF THE FOURTH AGE OF THE WORLD.Palpable Forgery of this period in 1 Kings vi. 1.—Table X. Critarchal Eras and Intervals, from Usher and Cuninghame—Object of Usher in determining this period—Testimony of Paul...
7. CHAPTER VI.—EXTENT OF THE FIFTH AGE OF THE WORLD.Table XII. Monarchal Eras and Intervals, from Usher and Cuninghame—Correction of the mistakes of chronologers as to the true extent of this period, by Mr. Cuninghame—Table XIII....
8. CHAPTER VII.—EXTENT OF THE SIXTH AGE OF THE WORLD.1. Table XIV. Hierarchal Eras and Intervals, from Usher and Cuninghame—Determination of the Intervals from Scripture—Period of the Seventy years Captivity—Period of the Seventy...
9. CHAPTER I.—HISTORICAL CONFIRMATION OF THE TRUE SYSTEM OF CHRONOLOGY.Testimonies of the ancient chronographers and historians before and after Christ, in favour of the chronology of the Septuagint—Demetrius, Eupolemus, Josephus, Justin Martyr, an...
10. CHAPTER II.—REDUCTION OF THE MUNDANE ERA OF REDEMPTION.Errors of Eusebius, Jerome, and the western churches—Consistency of the eastern and southern churches to the latest period—Chronology of the Russians and Armenians, that of the...
11. CHAPTER III.—CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH SYSTEMS OF CHRONOLOGY ERRONEOUS.Chronology of the English Bible erroneous—Usher influenced by the Masoretes—Tradition of the House of Elias—Its complete refutation both from Scripture and fact—Utility and appl...
12. CHAPTER IV.—CYCLICAL CHARACTER OF THE MUNDANE TIMES.1. The revolutions of the heavenly bodies appointed for cycles—Origin of the cycles of the year and the month—The subject of Enoch’s prophecy—Mr. Cuninghame’s discovery of the c...
13. CHAPTER V.—DISCOVERY OF NEW MUNDANE CYCLES.1. Mr. Cuninghame’s discovery of the mystical signification of the seventy years’ captivity—Its connection with the era of the French Revolution—Confirmed by the sentiments of t...
14. CHAPTER VI.—DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE SEPTUAGINT CHRONOLOGY.1. Mr. Cuninghame’s application of the lunisolar cycles and septennary periods to the settlement of chronological questions—The Septuagint proved to be the _exact truth_ by a co...
15. CHAPTER I.—THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.Primeval prophecy concerning the Messiah—Errors in the translation of it, in different versions—Correct in the Septuagint—Tradition of this prophecy in the Ante and Post Diluvia...
16. CHAPTER II.—TESTIMONY OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TO THE SUBJECT OF1. Object of the Disposition of the Cherubim at Eden—Its disappearance from the earth—The remembrance of its glory transmitted to the Postdiluvians—Its occasional re-appearance...
17. CHAPTER III.—TRADITIONARY AND POETICAL AGES OF THE WORLD.1. Tradition concerning the Seventh Age—Prophecy of the Universal Saviour—Traditions of the Jews—Opinion of Irenæus and the Christian Church in his time—Dr. Russell’s opinion co...
18. CHAPTER IV.—ERRORS OF THE ANCIENT CHRONOGRAPHERS.1. Authority of the Scripture texts superior to that of the ancient chronographers—The testimony of the latter chiefly in favour of the Septuagint—The testimonies of Josephus, T...
19. CHAPTER I.1. Discrepancies of the Hebrew, Septuagint and Samaritan Texts—Solution of the difficulty by the chronographers of the middle ages—Consistency of the Septuagint and the New Test...
20. CHAPTER II.1. Discrepancies of the three texts—Unfounded hypothesis of Usher—Agreement of Josephus with the Septuagint—Authority of this Version in the Church—Its chronology confirmed by t...
21. Part II. of the “Fulness of the Times,” p. xv., the author has placedthe inconsistency of Usher’s scheme in such a clear light, that further argument on the subject is needless; the following is his unanswerable conclusion:—“the greatness of Abra...
22. CHAPTER III.Thus, it appears that there is a difference of _thirteen centuries and a-quarter_ between the Hebrew-Usher and the Septuagint chronologies, at the epoch of the Call of Abraham,—...
23. xxiv. 2, as the only idolater among the Postdiluvian Patriarchs, shouldhave dared to follow the practices of the Heathen, while all his pious ancestors were yet alive! And, that, as Mr. Cuninghame justly remarks, “the Scriptures should tell us noth...
24. CHAPTER IV.The extent of the _Third_, or Patriarchal age, is ascertained from the text of Exodus xii. 40 and 41. That this passage originally stood in the Hebrew as it now stands in the ot...
25. CHAPTER V.Palpable Forgery of this period in 1 Kings vi. 1.—Table X. Critarchal Eras and Intervals, from Usher and Cuninghame—Object of Usher in determining this period—Testimony of Paul...
26. CHAPTER VI.Table XII. Monarchal Eras and Intervals, from Usher and Cuninghame—Correction of the mistakes of chronologers as to the true extent of this period, by Mr. Cuninghame—Table XIII....
27. CHAPTER VII.1. Table XIV. Hierarchal Eras and Intervals, from Usher and Cuninghame—Determination of the Intervals from Scripture—Period of the Seventy years Captivity—Period of the Seventy...
28. part ii. pp. 1–27, and in his “Season of the End,” pp. 73–90, where herefutes the opinions of Newton, Hales, Gresswell and others, and demonstrates that the Passion of Christ took place in the _thirty-fifth_ year of his age, that is, according to...
29. CHAPTER I.Testimonies of the ancient chronographers and historians before and after Christ, in favour of the chronology of the Septuagint—Demetrius, Eupolemus, Josephus, Justin Martyr, an...
30. CHAPTER II.Errors of Eusebius, Jerome, and the Western churches—Consistency of the Eastern and Southern churches to the latest period—Chronology of the Russians and Armenians that of the S...
31. CHAPTER III.Chronology of the English Bible erroneous—Usher influenced by the Masoretes—Tradition of the House of Elias—Its complete refutation both from Scripture and fact—Utility and appl...
32. CHAPTER IV.1. The Revolutions of the Heavenly bodies appointed for Cycles—Origin of the cycles of the year and the month—The subject of Enoch’s prophecy—Mr. Cuninghame’s discovery of the c...
33. CHAPTER V.1. Mr. Cuninghame’s discovery of the mystical signification of the Seventy years’ Captivity—Its connection with the Era of the French Revolution—Confirmed by the sentiments of t...
34. CHAPTER VI.1. Mr. Cuninghame’s application of the Lunisolar cycles and Septenary periods to the settlement of chronological questions—The Septuagint proved to be the _exact truth_ by a com...
35. CHAPTER I.Primeval prophecy concerning the Messiah—Errors in the translation of it, in different versions—Correct in the Septuagint—Tradition of this prophecy in the Ante and Post Diluvia...
36. CHAPTER II.1. Object of the Disposition of the Cherubim at Eden—Its disappearance from the earth—The remembrance of its glory transmitted to the Postdiluvians—Its occasional re-appearance...
37. CHAPTER III.1. Tradition concerning the Seventh Age—Prophecy of the Universal Saviour—Traditions of the Jews—Opinion of Irenæus and the Christian Church in his time—Dr. Russell’s opinion co...
38. vii. 14, we find that the martyr Stephen, in his defence before the HighPriest of the Jews, gives this census, including the grandsons and great grandsons of Joseph, who, as well as his sons, had previously migrated in their father’s loins, as amoun...
39. v. 142, and refers to the time after the flood, when as the Poet says,“the men were much inferior to those of the _Golden age_, being unlike them both in body and mind; then, indeed, the boy of a _hundred years_ was brought up by his careful mothe...
40. CHAPTER IV.1. Authority of the Scripture texts superior to that of the ancient chronographers—The testimony of the latter chiefly in favour of the Septuagint—The testimonies of Josephus, T...
41. Part II. of Mr. Cuninghame’s “Fulness of the Times,” pp. x, et seq.It is proper, however, to add the promised explanation, as abridged as possible. Mr. Cuninghame, in his “Fulness of the Times,” pp. 138, 139, shows that in curtailing the true c...