Ordo Sæclorum A Treatise On The Chronology Of The Holy Scriptures
Publisher: J.W. Parker
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION.; title: $ 1. Apology for the present undertaking. 2 — 6. Survey of materials for the construction of Scripture Chronology. 7, 8. Schemes of Ussher and Petavius : their basis. 9. Mr. Clinton’s scheme described. 10. How the present differs from it. 11 — 14. Singular facts involved in this scheme: cannot be ascribed to human artifice. 15. General probability, from analogy of nature, that such facts are part of a Divine Plan. Scripture intimates the existence of such a Plan. 16. Its reality, how evidenced. 17 — 22. Importance of these results. Apologetic use. Modem scepticism. Uses to faith. Caution p. 1 — 24.; title: PART I.; title: HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY.; title: Chapter I.; title: ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY.; title: P. 25—94.; title: Section I. On the Time of Christ's Nativity. P. 25 — 52.; title: § 23. Elements of the question. 24 — 28. Time of Herod's death ascertained from Josephus. 29 — 31. Confirmatory arguments. 32 — 37. The Sacerdotal Cycle described and applied to the determination of this question p. 25—36.; title: Appendix I. On the Dates assigned to the Nativity by the early Christian Writers. § 38—47 p. 37—39.; title: Appendix II. On the ’A iroypa<pv, or Census,  at the time of the Nativity. § 48, 49. S. Luke vindicated. 50. Text not corrupt. 51 — 53. Grammar of the passage : Bp. Middleton's interpretation, Mr. Greswell's. How the passage must be rendered. 54 — 58. The diroypadHi was part of a general Census: Quirinus commissioner for Syria. Tertullian's statement.; title: Note. Sanclemente's argument in support of this explanation p. 40 — 49.; title: Appendix III. On the Star of the Magi. § 59. Kepler’s hypothesis. 60. Revived by Dr. Miinter. 61. Advocated by Ideler. 62. Remarks, p. 50—52.; title: Section II. On the Time of the Crucifixion 63. Extreme limits. 64. The Astronomical element of the question described : dates of Passovers, a. d- 28 — 33. Result. 66 — 69. Certain that Christ suffered on the 14th Nisan, not 16th. The first three Gospels reconciled with S. John. The Last Supper was an anticipated Pascha. 70. So represented by the Ancients. 71. Historical elements considered : 16th year of Tiberius. 72. Building of Herod’s Temple. 73, 74. John the Baptist. Slaughter of Galileans. (Note: Annas and Caiaphas.) Acts of Apostles. 76. Result. 76 — 78. Early Christian testimonies. 79. Consensus of the Early Latin Church. 80,81. Other writers. 82. Summary of early opinions. 83. Remarkable agreement of the most ancient testimony with our result. Acta Pilata . 84. Epiphanius.; title: Corollary. On the duration of our Lord*s Ministry from the Baptism to the Passion, § 86. Difficulty stated. 86. Testimony of the Ancients. 87. Counter-evidence. 88. Irenaeus. 89 — 92. Text of John vi. 4. considered. Testimony of Irensus, Or i gen, Cyril Alex. MSS. and versions. 93. Probable design of the interpolation. 94. Plan of S. John's Gospel : a cycle of Festivals. 95. Solution of the difficulty. Note. Mann’s hypothesis p. 63 — 94.; title: Chapter II.; title: CHRONOLOGY OF THE APOSTOLIC HISTORY. P. 96—163. Section I. Chronology of the Acts of the Apostles. P. 96 — 127.; title: § 97. Death of Herod Agrippa, time known : coincides with a visit of S. Paul to Jerusalem, Acts xii. 98. List of such visits. 99. Proof that the visit. Gal. ii. 1, coincides with Acts xii. 100. Epoch of the 14 years : date of S. Paul's conversion : result for the date of the Crucifixion. 101, 102. Martyrdom of S. Stephen. Testimony of Ancients. S. Paul’s first visit to Jerusalem (Note : on Aretas). Conversion of Cornelius. 103. A long interval ensues. Design of the history. 104. Dispersion of the Apostles p. 96—106.; title: $105, 106. Chronology of S. Paul's journeys. Decree of Claudius: Orosius assigns the true date. 107. Gallio Proconsul in Achaia. 108 — 110. Felix Procurator : extreme limits of time determined. 111. How long S. Paul was detained in Palestine. 112, 113. How long Felix resident in Palestine. Statement of Tacitus, substantially correct. Felix held a military office under Cumanus. 114. Time of S. Paul's arrest at Jerusalem. Death of Jonathan: the Egyptian.  115. Result: attested by Eusebius. 116 — 119. Dates of S. Paul's journeys.; title: Note. Felix, Josephus, and Popp sea. Festus, Albinus, Gessius Florus. Summary or Dates p. 107—127; title: Section II. Chronology of the Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists.; title: 1. The Epistles of S . Paul . $ 121. Galatians. 122. Thessalonians. 123. 1 Corinthians. (Note, 1 Cor. v. 9.) 124. 2 Corinthians. (Note: Whether any of S. Paul's visits to Corinth not mentioned by S. Luke.) 125. Time of the ecstasy,; title: 2 Cor. xii. 2. 126. Romans. 127. Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon. 128. Timothy and Titus. 129. S. Paul's martyrdom at Rome. 130. The Apostle was twice a prisoner at Rome. 131. Epistle to Hebrews : authorship and time.; title: 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.; title: III. Epistles of S. James and S. Jude. § 140, 141.; title: The Gospel of S. Matthew . $ 143. Originally written in Hebrew. 144. Source of Evangelism Hebraorum. 145 — 147. Our Greek version : author unknown, but made before a. d. 60. The original perhaps before a. d. 41.; title: S. Mark and S. Luke. $ 148, 149. Notices respecting S. Mark reconciled.; title: 150. Time of S. Luke's Gospel and Acts. 151. Hence of S. Mark's.; title: 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 addressed?; title: §159. Summary of Dates. p 127— 163.; title: Chapter III.; title: FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. P. 164- 220.; title: Section I. The Chronology of the Chaldean and Persian Times qf the Old Testament, from the Epoch of the Captivity to the Close of the Canon. P. 164—203.; title: § 161. Canon of Ptolemy : epoch of Jehoiachin ascertained. 162. Hence 4th Jehoi&kim, 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 Rings differs from,  Daniel's epoch agrees with,  the Canon. Berosus accounts for the fact.; title: § 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 Aeschylus 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.; title: Chronology of the Prophecies of Jeremiah. § 182. The order apparently confused, but proceeds upon a plan. Entire collection consists of seven portions. Description of these, with their dates p. 178—187.; title: Chronology of Ezekiel. § 183. The arrangement is mostly chronological, but also systematic, according to subjects. Description of plan, contents, and chronology p. 187—194.; title: Chronology of Daniel. § 184. Plan, contents, and times p. 194 — 198. Ezra, Esther,  Nehemiah, Haggai,  Zcchariah,  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 Thucydides : dates p. 198 — 203.; title: Section II. Times of the Syr o~ Grecian Kings,  especially of Antiochus Epiphanes, and of the Maccabees.; title: $ 193. Prophetical interest of this period. 194. The Second Empire of Prophecy : Alexander. 195 — 201. Fulfilment of Daniel xi. 8 — 20, traced historically with dates. 202—206. Times of Antiochus Epiphanes, and the Maccabees, p. 204 — 211.; title: Appendix to Chapter III. On the Dates of the Capture of the Temple by Pompey, and afterwards by Herod.; title: $ 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.; title: Chapter IV.; title: FROM THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOMS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH TO THE SEVENTY YEARS’ CAPTIVITY.; title: P. 221—253.; title: $ 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.; title: $ 226 — 231. Construction of the Chronology in detail, with solutions of difficulties, down to the end of the kingdom of Israel. 232 — 235. Continuation, to the 4th of Jehoiakim p. 230 — 248.; title: Appendix. Chronology of the Prophets who lived before the Exile.; title: $ 236. Jonah, Joel, Amos, Hosea. 237. Isaiah: arrangement, contents, and dates, of his Prophecies. 238. Micah. 239. Nahum, Zephaniab, Habakkuk. p. 248—263.; title: Chapter V.; title: FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM. P. 254 — 294.; title: $ 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.; title: Section I. From the Day of Mizpeh to the Schism .; title: § 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 p. 260 — 265.; title: Section II. From the Exodus to the Death of Moses.; title: § 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 Tabernacle to the judgment at Kadesh. 259. Period of wandering : Korah’s rebellion. 260. Route of Israelites, and list of stations, explained p. 266 — 272.; title: Section III. Times of Joshua and the Judges .; title: $ 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 Shecbem. 267. Book of Judges, how connected with Joshua. 268. Detailed Chronology of Joshua and Judges. 269. Place of latter chapters of Judges.; title: Ruth. $ 270. Time of this history. Difficulty connected with genealogy. 271. The Paxos of S. Matthew probably not Rahab of Jericho: how to be explained p. 273 — 286.; title: Section IV. On Sabbatical and Jubilean Years.; title: $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.; title: Chapter VI.; title: FROM THE CALL OF ABRAHAM TO THE EXODE; title: $ 281. Exodus xii. 40. the 430 yean, how understood by the Jews (Josephus, 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. Detailed Chronology p. 295 — 317.; title: Chapter VII.; title: FROM THE CREATION OF ADAM TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. P. 318—351.; title: Section I. Genuine Hebrew Chronology of this Period,; title: § 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 Mra B. C. 301. Detailed Chronology from Adam to the Flood. 302. Death of Abel — birth of Seth — Lantech 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.; title: Tabular view of the Patriarchal lives, from Adam to Jacob p. 318 — 329.; title: Section II. Examination of the Alexandrine and Samaritan Chronologies.; title: § 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 ; exceptions. 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 description 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 followed 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.; title: End of Part I.; title: PART II.; title: MYSTICAL CHRONOLOGY, OR, DIVINE ECONOMY OF TIMES AND SEASONS.; title: Chapter I.; title: ON THE ECONOMY DESCRIBED IN THE INTRODUCTION.; title: § 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 aloiv. Corollaries p. 359 — 377.; title: Chapter II.; title: DANIEL’S PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS.; title: $ 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 aioov. 340. Manifold fulfilment of the last half-week. 341. A type of Antichrist in the end of the Abrahamic aitov p. 378 — 393.; title: Chapter III.; title: OTHER MORE PRECISE AND MORE RECONDITE ECONOMIES INVOLVED IN THE GENERAL SCHEME.; title: § 342. “The fulness of time:” the year of Jubile. 343. “Supremus Dies” of Mosaic altov. 344 — 352. Economies chiefly connected with the period of the Seventy Weeks. 363 — 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 Antioch us 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.; title: Supplement.; title: TIMES OF THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.; title: § 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.; title: End of Part II.; title: APPENDIX.; title: I. A Compendium of the principal Institutes of Chronology.; title: Section I. Preliminary Definitions. $ 396—399. The natural day ; tropical year : lunar month : years, solar and lunar, of the Ancients.; title: Section II. $ 400. The Julian Calendar .; title: Section III. § 401. The Egyptian Calendar .; title: Section IV. $ 402. The Macedonian and Syrian Calendars .; title: Section V. The Ancient Hebrew Calendar : Principles of Lunar Calculation : Ancient Paschal Cycles . § 403. Form of the Hebrew year. 404. Sabbath.; title: 406, 406. Hebrew day. 407. Months. Principle of adjustment of lunar to solar year. 408. New Moons. 409. Epoch of year two-fold. Mosaic Festivals : Pascha. 411. Principle of Calculation. 412. Feast of Weeks. 413, 414. New Moon of Tisri, and Day of Atonement 415. Tabernacles. 416. Names of months after Exile.; title: 417 419 . Regulation of Calendar in times of Second Temple. 420, 421. Other holy days. 422. Jewish aras. 423. Reduction of Jewish to Julian dates. 424. Ancient Paschal Cycles : Octaeteris. 426—431. The Canon of S. Hippolytus described : proof of its antiquity. 432. A similar canon of S. Cyprian. 433. Use of the octaeteris and other cycles.; title: Section VI. Chronological sras and their epochs. § 434. Olympiads. 436. Anni Urbis Conditse. 436. Consular Reckoning. 437—439. Era of Nabonassar. 440—442. .®ra of Seleucid®. 443. The Julian Period. 444 — 447. The solar cycle: calculation of week-days. 448 — 558. Description of the following Tables: I. For the calculation of mean paschal full moon. II. For the reduction of Jewish to Julian dates. III. Calculation of true paschal full moon a. d. 29. IV. Table of Dominical Letters, for any year b.c. or a. d. old style . V. To find, at sight, the week-day of any Julian day. VI. To find the interval from a given day to a given day. VII. To reduce Julian years into days and into cyclical periods p.455 — 509.; title: II. Remarks on the Scheme of Scripture Chronology constructed by Mr Greswell in his “ Dissertation s on the Harmony of the Gospels,” and more especially on that Writers Hypothesis of an Interruption in the Julian Calendar.; title: § 45 6. Cardinal dates of Mr Greswell’s scheme. 467. The initial synchronism not proved, but assumed. Period from Adam to Abraham. 458. Date a. si. of Exode, how obtained. 459. Date B. c. of Exode, how obtained. 460. Erroneous assumption on sabbatical and jubilean cycle. 461. Purpose for which this Writer went into a discussion of Old Testament Chronology. 462 — 467. Mr Greswell’s date of the Nativity, how obtained. 468. Date of the Passion. 469. Hypothesis of an interruption in the Julian Calendar: its object. 470. The question clearly stated. 471. If the fact be so, the object still not obtaiued. 472, 473. Source of the confusion on this subject 474. But the fact is not so. Perpetuity of Julian reckoning proved— on general grounds. 475. By dates of eclipses, &c. 476. By recorded synchronisms of week-days with Julian days. 477 — 479. Mr Greswell’s proofs examined.; title: Note. On the Accuracy of the Ancient Jewish Calendar. §480. Synchronisms of Jewish with week-days. 481, 482. Dates in Josephus's history of the assault of Cestius Gallus, and beginning of Jewish war. 483 — 486. Other dates in the history of the war. Table of the Jewish and Julian months from a. d. 66 to 70 p. 510—545.; title: III. The Chronographies of the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, examined and compared with the Scriptures. P. 646 — 633.; title: Section I. Assyrian and Babylonian Chronology.; title: § 487. Interest of the enquiry. 488. Names of Assyrian kings recorded in Scripture. 489, 490. Information obtained from Berosus and Abydenus. 491, 492. Construction of Chronology from Sennacherib to overthrow of Assyrian Empire. 493. Interesting coincidences with Scripture. 494, 495. Confusion of accounts relative to Sennacherib and Esarhaddon. 496. The Babylonian Canon. Merodach Baladan. 497. The Median Revolt (Note : On the books of Tobit and Judith.) 498. Median Chronology of Ctesias compared with Herodotus: is part of an artificial scheme ; annus magnus of 1460 years. 499. Epoch of Semiramis. 500. Artificial structure of the period before Semiramis. 501. Date of Median Invasion of Babylon, artificial but not far from the truth. The period of 473,000 years explained. The compound Sossus. 502. From the Deluge to ®ra of Nabonassar (Berosus): artificial structure detected. 503. From Creation to Deluge: basis the same. 504. Results, compared with Scripture. 505. Scheme of Georgius Syncellus P* 546—566.; title: Note I. Indian Chronography. § 506. The four Yugas in their original form. 507. Based on the compound Sossus p. 566 — 568.; title: Note II. Chinese Chronography. § 508. Description of Chinese year, and sexagesimal cycle of years and days. Dynasties. Epoch of Chinese history. 509. The entire Chronography baaed on the compound Sossus. Epoch compared with Scripture P- 568 — 571.; title: Section II. Egyptian Chronology. P. 671 — 633.; title: § 510. Sources of information. 511—513. Period from Cambyses up to Shishak (con temp, with Rehoboam.) 514. Probable that some memory of the events connected with Exode of Israel would be preserved— in what forms. 515. Epoch of 18th dynasty determined. 516. Manetho's story of the Hyksos : 517. disguise of the history of Israelites in Egypt. 518. Egyptian date of their expulsion ascertained.; title: 519. Coincidence of the epoch of the 18th dynasty with our Scripture Chronology.; title: 520. Manetho’s story of the lepers. 521. Travestied from the Scripture account.; title: Duration of Shepherd tyranny : its epoch— surprising coincidence with our Scripture Chronology. 522—526. Other versions of the story : Chseremon, Lysimachus, Diodorus, Tacitus. 627. Summary of results : 528. applied to explanation of Manetho : 529. of Old Chronicle : 530. and Herodotus. 531. Who built the Pyramids ? 532. The Old Chronicle : is based upon the compound Sossus.; title: 533. Genesis of the scheme in detail : epoch of Menes. 534. List of Eratosthenes: based upon the same measure. 535. Epoch of Menes is artificial. Time of Demigods explained. 536. Antemundane periods of Old Chronicle. Sum of years from Helius to Alexander: is artificial; how generated. 537. Manetho’s Second Book : its relation to the Chronicle : based like it upon the compound Sossus: artifices of its construction. 541. List of Eratosthenes compared with Old Chronicle and Manetho. 542, 543. Nitocris and the Pyramid-builden. 544. Genesis of the period contained in Manetho’s Fint Book. Period from Menes to Sesostris, and to Alexander ; framed upon the compound Sossus. 545—549. Examination of Book I. in detail : its historical substance detected. 550. Time of Gods and Demigods. (Note : On the list of Diodorus). 551. Remarks on the Monuments. 552. Epoch of Sesostris and of Sothiac Cycle. 553. Table of Abydos. 554. Servitude of Israelites in Egypt. 555. The Pyramid -builders    p. 571 — 604.; title: On the Connexion of the Egyptian Mythus of Osiris and Typhon with the History of Joseph and the Exode.; title: § 556, 557. Story of Osiris and Typhon how connected with the Israelites. 658, 559. And both with story of Shepherds. 560. Horus and Harpocrates. 561. Account of the former in the Rosetta inscription. 562 — 564. Deification of Apis, at the time of the Exode. 565. The remarkable story of Mycerinus.; title: 566. A curious fact connected with Egyptian Calendar confirms these results.; title: 567. Conclusion p. 604—613.; title: Tables. $ 568 — 570. The Egyptian Dynasties of Manetho, according to; title: Africanus and according to Eusebius. 571. Dynasty of Gods and Demigods: Manetho. 572. Another, according to Eusebius. 573. The Old Egyptian Chronicle. 574. Castor’s summary. 575. List of Eratosthenes. 576. List of Shepherds and 18th dynasty reported from Manetho by Josephus. 677 — 581. Remarks on this and other lists of the 18th dynasty p. 614 — 633.; title: IV. Outlines of a Chronological Harmony of the Gospel History of our Loro’s Ministry; with an Attempt to explain the Structure of that Part of the First Gospel which is included between the Baptism of Christ and the Martyrdom of John the Baptist .; title: $ 582. Recapitulation of Evidence for the Dates assigned to the Passion and the Baptism of our Lord : additional argument relative to John vi. 4. Object of the present inquiry. 583, 584. Basis of the Harmony. Relation of fourth Gospel to first three. 585. A peculiarity of S. Luke’s Gospel, (Note). 586. Analysis of Contents of first three Gospels, down to the Martyrdom of John. 587. Discrepancies of Matthew’s order from other two. 588. How this order is formed. 589. One source of these discrepancies discovered. 590—592. Theory to account for the present order of S. Matthew’s Gospel, (Note : not Whiston’s hypothesis revived). 593, 594. Adjustment of harmonized narrative of first three to fourth Gospel. (Note : Journal of Passion-week). Calendar of Jewish and Julian Dates from the Baptism to the Pentecost. The Harmony, from the Baptism to the beginning of Passion-Week. 595. Remarks; the interval from Passover to first Pentecost sufficient for the series of incidents described. 696, 697. On the <Tctfif3arop iem-spovpooTov. 598. From Pentecost to Tabernacles. The day of parables considered. 599. Mission of Apostles : the five thousand : Herod’s ignorance of Christ. 600, 601. From Tabernacles to Encania, and to Passover p. 634 — 663.; title: V. Outlines of an Essay on the Nature, Intent,  and Complex Structure of Prophecy.; title: $ 602. Three orders of Prophecy The Promite,  The Liturgical Prophecy,  The Vision of the Day of the Lord . 603. Conjuncture at which the third order begins. 604. General purport and substance of the Vision as a whole : 605. Compared with actual fulfilment hitherto. 606. Phenomena, seeming continuity and apparent exaggeration,  how to be explained. Principle of relations derived from notion of vision. 607. The four crises. 608. Prophets before and during the Exile : — idea most clearly exhibited in Daniel ; then in Zechariah : traces in earliest Prophets, Joel and Amos. Complex sense. 609. Christ’s Prophecy, follows same law. 610. And Apocalypse: especially in portraiture of the Beast. 611. Same idea traced in other terms of Prophecy. 612. An important application. Messiah’s kingdom, how understood by different classes of expositors. 613. The question considered in connexion with principle of relations. 614. Zion,  Jerusalem,  Israel, in the Prophets, do not exclusively denote the Christian Church. 615. Objections to the “spiritual” interpretation. (Note: On a passage of Justin Martyr.) p. 663—676.; title: On Daniel 8 Visions of the Four Empires .; title: $ 616. Objections to the commonly-received Interpretation of the Vision of the Image. 617, 618. Interpretation of the Four Beasts p. 675—679.; title: On the Time of the Apocalypse.; title: § 619. Traditions respecting the author and date, conflicting. 620. A note of time in chap. xi. 621. A more important one in chap, xvii, the seven Jieads. Nero expected to return as Antichrist; this notion must have been derived from the Apocalypse. 622. Hence an inference as to the date. 623, 624. Opinions of the Ancients on this subject. Note: The notion was not derived from the apocryphal Ascensio Esaue. Earliest mention in the Sibylline Oracles p. 679 — 685.; title: Hints for the Study of Prophecy : Principle of Relations applied.; title: § 626. Epoch of the order of the Prophets, beginning with Jonah, coincides with a remarkable conjuncture of History.; title: § 627, 628. Sign of Jonas the Prophet. 629. Wherein the sign consist; title: § 630, 631. Significance of the symbol in reference to the system of Prophecy.; title: § 632-636. Joel. 637—640. Amos.; title: § 641 — 644. Hosea,  first three chapters.; title: § 645—648. Isaiah,  first six chapters p. 685—700.; title: Corrections and Additions p. 701—704.