Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-12-28

adding the reignsuf juaah, without re-
gard to the six years of joint 9uSing
whichispeffeetiy evident bycoHfarisoa
with the reigns In Tsraei) They more
over interpoIatci9 years too much at
the captivity, by making tile 20 years
fromiLe destruction Of Jcrusalcm reach.
to the Cyrus decree in b. c. $50, in
stead of reaching Jas ia right to the,
finished temple in B. {. 5l7-l6. Thus
they wrongly increase the amount 10y
(6 and 10 orr % years, from 4lC3 to
4l2s, which is also the reckoning Of
Vignicr. DR. Scss, in his work on
"The Last oTimes,h tises this wrong
res koning; but puts in also one year
for tic duration. Of the food, and two
years as Intervening Between Ahrahanl's
coming TO Canaan and the Covenant
made with him; and titus he gets H3l
years before A. d., and, throws the end
down to A. D.ol8G9:: '*'' 10 -' '.",' "a
Browne also i'm Colcman's work. has
those three added years Of Seiss, though
all put to Abraham j but then, incfeas-
! ing the correct 25l only to 25i, 70 years
less than the 26O,) and reducing Solo
mons reign by years, aud reducing
the previous g 5s0th year " from the
Exodus to the Temple, (by omission Of
Johua's years, of land distribution
| he'dccreascs the amoaut IL years below
Seiss, making APO before A. D., with
the end at A. ID. 1850, just as in Hales
and the ''Timc Of the End But Cole;
man himself taking Out. IS Of the 10
years error at the captivity, land only
leaving the /, because he follows. the
vulgar b., G. 5Ss instead of the correct
5s7 for Jerysalem's destruction, u.
makes only il02 before A: d., and the
end at \, d. 1898, only one year from
the truth as we get it. For, zee deduct
that other years error al the captivity
and Of the same time, of setting the, g.
years too large for Israel t257' for. 254, y
and the 8 years too much put in at
Abraham, BY the 6 years omitted from
Joshua, we get 4l0S before A. d.,
with the end at A. d. 1891, as stated be-
iorer 9uiWuua b" auasr. .e~ftH -
tShineall and Serville get 4ts4, and
so have a. D., 1865, like Faber and
Scott. Tynes gkts it still earler;l rs
also Clinton, who has 4l37, and so A. ID.
1868. The Hebrew -TexttaccOrding to
Hales gives A. ID. lSB9.jlg Cummings
Processes to follow Clinton, but sets A. !
ID. 1866, instead OF 1853 1t seems
that alHgood writer's put the +!
end iof3oU.J. years according to the
Hebrew Bible) somewhere in the last I
half of this century, the princi al points /
u tirat of taber, s'cUtt, Cum
ming, Shimeall, and Seville, at 1865,
with iSeiss at 1869, and Browne and
Browne, andthc' Time Of the End" at
1880, - and (3) that Of -Lyd:at and
at 1897, with Coleman at 1893.
Each reader must study out aud deter
mine for himself, as we have done,
whether any Of the variations nanied
are allowable, whereby an earlier end Is
but for ourselves. n most
thorough research has convinced Us
that the correction Of 100 years and of 4
year and this only which gives II.
1897, is the legitimate and correct reck-
on;ag, from which there cannot be a
variation of or 3 years. H&.t
"fAll this is based upon the Hebrew
Text of the Bible, without regard to
theSeptaugint Version, which gives an
entirely different aud much Iargeraaee
to- the world rfa .aat #". ."@..
% May it be, that not only the 6G'o NpfFs
but also the 1890 years of Dan. XII: II,
end at a. ID. 1896 or Z, while the l266dO
end at SOS, when Rome has been evac-
France, and the Pope las boes,
left tohieruih, +-syen as proposed by
Tabor, Scott, Cum ming, shimeall, Sa-
vile. &c,?i4ln G..- n.iIAa "n "gas# hEla