The Danville Quarterly Review Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... 172 added to the above make 2000. Thirdly, it is not difficult to perceive how the Jews count precisely one thousand years from the giving of the law till Alexander the Great, when they commenced a new era, namely: From the law till Solomon's Temple, 480; duration of this temple. 410; Babylonish captivity, 70; Persia's rule, 34; and 6 years under Alexander the Great, before the Jews commenced their new era--all of them amounting to just 1000 years. Hence we perceive how Hebrew Chronology makes these few lines in the Talmud one of its most essential pillars. As we inspect them, the first and chief object of amazement is that all the rule of Persia, in the time of the second temple, is set down at the low figure of 34 years. What a blunder Amazing, indeed We would say, utterly incredible But here we are compelled to believe our eyes Amazing mistake when we know from Neh. ziii: 6, that the single Artaxerxes Longimanus reigned considerably more than 32 years. Amazing mistake when we know that almost all chronologists place the beginning of the reign of Xerxes in the year before Christ, 485, and the death of his son, Artaxerxes Longimanus, in the year before Christ, 423, thus assigning to these two reigns fully 61 years. Amazing mistake, indeed Please commence with Alexander the Great, when he overthrew the Persian Empire, in the final defeat of Darius Codo-manus, and travel backward: we must assign to this Darius a reign, of 4 years; to his immediate predecessor, Arses, 2 years; to the next predecessor, Darius Ochus, 21 years; to the next, Artaxerxes Mnemon, 46 years; to the next, Darius Nothus, whose name is the first word in Xenophon's Anabasis, 19 years; to his predecessor, Sogdianus, 7 months; to the next predecessor, Xerxes II, 2 months;...