The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-01-07

down. Four years out OF the way would
have made the prosperity or distress of q
presidential term really chsrgeable to the
succeeding administration, not with refer
ence TO the names of incumbents of the
presidential chair and Office, but in rela
ton to days and dates. Consequently
such measure of prosperity as was the
portion OF Mr.. Harrison's term s due to
MIR. Cleveland, whose doings will really
be chargeable to Maj Mckinley. In or
der to get the credit for what he may do
Maj. Mckinley will have to succeed him.
self. 1t is all very complex and very in
teresting from the standpoint that the
calendar is wrong four years worth.
Judge Greene is decidedly serious in
the matter and he proves by the same
authority that would Ice cited against his
theory that he is right, and that Jesus
Christ was born in the year 5 b. c.
Judge Greene says: "He was about 80
years old at His baptism Luke iii :23)
which we reasonably may suppose to
have been at such season "a would sd-
init of His living in the open air in the
wilderness for forty days without expos
ure to extreme cold and without emitting
any observance OF the law OF Moses.
After His baptism came His ministry
which was of such duration that he at
tended only four paesovers during it,
viz; ~ John H., l3, 23; tx, 45; (2) w.,
81; ", l; 80 vi, l, 4 a. vii, l, 2, 8, 10,
II, IA, 81; XII, 50, St; xii, l, T., 20;
xii, /, 20; xiii, %, 80 xix, IA.
Ellis total life in the world, therefore,
was about 49, years. This term OF
life and length OF ministry are derived
from the Scripture, and being accepted
enable us to advance to the conclusion
established by the following arguments ::
"First-W hen our Lord was under .
years of age, that is about 81 to 80 years
before His death, Herod the Great, little
while before his decease, sought to destroy
Him Matt. ii:7l6, 10. 20). Herod's
reign was "a years and ended with his
death in the year 4 b. c., shortly after
the notable eclipse Of the moon, which
occurred On the 18Th of March of that
year DOS. Aut, xvii, vi, 4 xvii, viii. ",
|; Wars l., xxi, 81. Now, inasmuch
as the Lord only lived in the world 80 or
"a years, and must, from what has just
two years next before March 70, B. G. 4,
it is readily seen that He must have died
within two or three years OF the spring Of
\. ID. %, and since, AZ already shown,
He died on Friday, the 18th OF Abb,
one can easily calculate in what years
Immediately before and after 4. ID. 30,
the 18th of Abb would fall on Friday,
and thus learn perhaps the very year.
Making the calculation, we find that in
the years from "a A D., to 81 A. d.. in
elusive, the 18th of Abb fell on week
days and days of our Roman months
as shown in the following table: A. ID.
"a, April Is, Thursday %, April 3, Tues
day; 26, April %, Monday; 81, April IL.
Friday; %, March 80, Tuesday; %, April
Is, Monday; 30, April !, Friday 81 March
p, Tuesday; 81, April IA, Monday; SO,
April 4, Saturday; "a, March "A, We'd
nesday; 80, April l3, Wednesday; SO,
April |, Sunday; 81, April -, Saturday.
OF these years none but - or - A. d.,
could, according to the table, have been
the year OF crnciixion, and Of the two
the former cannot be accepted For, if
the crucifixion were A. ID. q, then the
Lord must have been born as early AZ b.
G, I, and been baptized 30 years later in
4. d. %, two or three years before Pom
thus Plate became governor OF Judea,
(Jos. Aut. xviii, H., ., Wars H., ix., y,
which cannot be because the Scripture
expressly says that Pontius Plate WAS
governor then when the Lord Jesus was
baptized. luke Ill, IL 1t follows that
A. ID. 30 is the only year in which the
crucfixion could have occurred consist
emily with Scripture, and that it must,
therefore, have occurred in that year.
"Observe, said Judge Greene, how this
table corroborates the former conclusion
that the crucifixion was on Friday; for
had it been on a Thursday our Lord
would have lived only about 90 years
and if it had been on Wednesday he
must have lived about 80 or 80 years"
Judge Greene goes on at considerable
length to establish his claims by other
proofs and other systems OF reckoning,
leading up conclusively to the inconsist-
ency Of the age of the Savior at the time
of the crucifixion and making out that
according to the generally accepted age
at the time of His birth He must have
been born the four years claimed by the
argument before Ammo Domini.
The discussion, while intricate and en-
tangling, is very interesting, and its ac-
ceptance or rejection is awaited with
considerable anxiety.
A Mathematical Probe IN.