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CONTENTS OF THE LETTER.

Introductory Remarks......................

On the ages of Nahor, Terah, and Abraham ......

On Cainan of the Septuagint and St. Luke .........
The ages of the Patriarchs before and after the flood, according to the
Hebrew and Greek texts and Josephus, examined and compared...

On the corruptions in the Chronology, &c., of the Septuagint and Josephus

The Identity of Melchi-zedek, king of Salem, with Shem, Noah's son...

On the length of time from the Exodus or departure from Egypt, to the

fourth year of Solomon's reign

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On the number Seven: and on the Prophecy of the seventy weeks con-
tained in Daniel, chap. ix., ver. 24 to the end, with literal transla-
tions of the same from both the Hebrew and Greek texts............

Explanation of the foregoing translations, with computations from the

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On the period of time that elapsed from the death of Julius Cæsar to the
death of Augustus, showing that in our present Chronologies there
is an error of thirteen years in the reign of Augustus Cæsar

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47

WILLIAM CUNINGHAME, ESQ.,

OF

LAINSHAW, IN THE COUNTY OF AYR.

HAVING read the books written by thee, entitled "Fulness of the Times," with Supplement, and Supplementary Dissertation on the Scriptural Chronology; (any other of thy publications I have not seen,) and as I have made the prophetical numbers and the chronology of the Bible my particular study for many years, I have considered it my duty to address thee on the conclusions at which thou hast arrived, and to submit to thee some things that I consider worthy of thy research in Scriptural chronology.

These two books which I have mentioned as lately written by thee, I have found useful, and I have no doubt they will be of use to future students in Scriptural chronology; although they may, with regard to thy method of explaining and calculating the prophetic numbers, and thy series of Jubilean periods, consider it right to lay aside as untenable some of thy arguments, calculations, and conclusions, and to object to thy charge against the Jewish scribes, for having intentionally corrupted the Hebrew text, as far as its chronology is concerned.

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