creation and seventh days' rest, an early predilection in favour of the number seven would be impressed upon the minds of mankind, which would lead them to apply that number when there was no authority for it; even in the Scriptures for instance, some of the ancients to prove the completeness of the number seven, went to establish this doctrine of the completeness of the number seven, because there were supposed to be only seven planets attached to our system; this, as thou well knowest, has been found to be erroneous, yet the error originated from the undue value which they placed upon the number seven. The same reasoning applies to the high place thou givest that number as being the square root of 49, which thou callest the Jubilean period, and I do not see that thou producest any authority from the Scriptures for dividing time from the creation of Adam by any number of Jubilean periods of 49 years, and fixing historical facts at the one end, and prophetical predictions and historical events at the other, as exhibited by thee in page 75, Supplementary Dissertation.

In this letter I hope to prove to thee that the 49th year was the great Sabbatic year, and that the year following, or every 50th year, was the Jubilean period, or the year of Redemption.

I shall now point out to thee a certain place in Scripture where authority really is to be met with for measuring time by the number seven, and also by its square 49; and as there is authority for doing this thou wilt find that it will prove with mathematical certainty and exactness, the time of Christ's birth, anointing, or baptism, death and resurrection, and I think it will

also most satisfactorily show thee that corruptions exist in a quarter which it appears to me thou hast had no suspicion of. As a preliminary step to this, I submit to thy consideration a literal translation of the Hebrew text, and also a literal translation of the Greek text, on this important part of Scripture, that produce the exact time that elapsed from the second year of Cyrus to the birth of Christ, and from the birth of Christ to the destruction of Jerusalem.

Those unacquainted with Hebrew who may read this letter, will please observe, that the Hebrew reads backward; therefore the literal translation of each line is read from right to left.

This information, and others I may have occasion to give would be unnecessary if this letter was to be read only by the learned gentleman to whom I address it.

holy place the and city the and him for not but Messiah be cut off shall

נגיד

הבא

וקצר

בשמך

a flood in of it end and that cometh a Prince

cease to cause will he week the of the midst and

וער

כנף

שקוצים

זבח

ומנחה

oblation and sacrifice

משמם

making desolate

upon poured be shall determined that and completion

GREEK TEXT.

Daniel ix. 24 verse to end of the Chapter.

24 Εβδομήκοντα ἑβδομάδες συνετμήθησαν ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν Seventy weeks are agreed upon the people

σου, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἁγίαν, τοῦ συντελεσθῆναι ἁμαρτίαν, of thee and upon the City the holy for to finish sacrifice for sin καὶ τοῦ σφραγίσαι ἁμαρτίας, καὶ ἀπαλεῖψαι τὰς ἀδικίας, καὶ τοῦ and for to seal the sacrifice for sin and to blot out the iniquities and for

ἐξιλάσασθαι ἀδικίας, καὶ τοῦ ἀγαγεῖν δικαιοσύνην αἰώνιον, καὶ τοῦ to drive out iniquities and for to bring righteousness everlasting and for

σφραγίσαι ὅρασιν καὶ προφήτην, καὶ τοῦ χρῖσαι ἅγιον ἁγίων. to seal up vision and the prophet and for to anoint the holy of holies.

25 Καὶ γνώση καὶ συνήσεις ἀπὸ ἐξόδου λόγου του

And that ye may know and may understand from going forth of the word for ἀποκριθῆναι, καὶ τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι Ιερουσαλήμ, ἕως Χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου to restore and for to build

Jerusalem until of Christ the leader

ἑβδομάδες ἑπτὰ, καὶ ἑβδομάδες ἑξηκονταδύο καὶ ἐπιστρέψει, καὶ weeks seven and weeks sixty-two and shall return and οἰκοδομνθήνεται πλατεία, καὶ τεῖχος, καὶ ἐκκενωθήσονται οἱ καιροί.

shall be built street and wall even troublous shall be the times.

26 Καὶ μετὰ τὰς ἑβδομάδας τὰς ἑξηκονταδύο, ἐξολοθρευθήσεται And after the weeks the sixty-two shall be destroyed Χρίσμα, καὶ κρίμα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ· καὶ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ τὸ the anointing and the judgment not is on him. And the city and the ἅγιον διαφθερεῖ σὺν τῷ ἡγουμένῳ τῷ ἐρχομένῳ, ἐκκοπήσονται ἐν sanctuary destroyed with the Prince then shall come shall cut off in κατακλυσμῷ, καὶ ἕως τέλους πολέμου συντετμημένου τάξει, ἀφανισμοῖς. deluge and until ends of war cutting short war to destructions.

27 Καὶ δυναμώσει διαθήκην πολλοῖς ἑβδομάς μία· καὶ ἐν τῷ And shall strengthen covenant with many week one and in the

ἡμίσει τῆς ἑβδομάδος ἀρθήσεταί μου θυσία καὶ σπονδή, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ half of the week shall make of me sacrifice and libation and upon the ἱερὸν βδέλυγμα τῶν ἐρημώσεων, καὶ ἕως τῆς συντελείας καιροῦ temple abomination of desolations and until the consummation of time

συντέλεια

δοθήσεται

δοθήσεται κ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐρήμωσια.

consummation shall be poured upon the

desolate.