Lastly, As Jacob and his family went into Egypt in B. c. 1855, when there were yet five years of famine, Gen. xlv. 11., it follows that B. C. 1850 was the last year of famine, and the year B. C. 1849 the epoch of the end of the famine and returning plenty.

In the scheme of Mr Clinton these dates stand as follows:

The whole of these results I leave to the consideration of the reader with only one remark, that the Chronology of the Seventy comes out of this trial also, with new and irrefragable evidence of its being the measure of the times ordained by the ETERNAL MIND.

I shall close this Appendix with some brief observations on the omission of the name of the second Cainan by Africanus. This Chronographer lived just in the age when it is probable that the Jews were beginning to make a systematic use of their curtailed Chronology against the Church, and, without doubt, they dwelt triumphantly, and in a way very much calculated to perplex the Christians, on the entire absence of this Cainan from the Hebrew text. Now the system of Africanus appears to have been like that of Theophilus, devised for the purpose of upholding the received Chronology of the Church, without the generation of Cainan, compensating the 130 years thereby lost, by adding to other periods. It is, of course, not easy to prove this assertion; but I add the following evidence of its strong probability :

Dr Routh, in his Reliquiæ Sacræ, vol. ii. p. 169. informs us, in a quotation from Syncellus,* that, according to Africanus, there were from Adam, viz. his Creation to the 8th of Solomon 4457 years; and the reader will see, by turning to the Tables of

The third century.

I have not seen the Work of Syncellus, nor have I been able to procure it from booksellers.

this Work, that the 4th of Solomon, the year of the foundation of the TEMPLE, is the year of the world 4452, to which, adding 4, we are brought to A. M. 4456 as the 8th of Solomon, being only one year less than the Chronology of Africanus. Now, in the same page of Dr Routh, I learn that Africanus makes, from the Exodus to the foundation of the Temple 740 years, which minus 612, the true period, leaves an excess of 128 years, just 2 years less than the generation of Cainan omitted by him. We, therefore, only want 3 years more to make up his period of 4457 years to the 8th of Solomon; for 4456 years, the true Chronology, minus 130 the generation of Cainan, + 128, the excess in his period from the Exodus to the foundation, 4454, which is less than Africanus's Chronology, just 3 years; and I think it will appear to the attentive reader, that what has now been offered affords the strongest grounds of presumption, that Africanus must have designedly left out the generation of Cainan for the reason already mentioned, and compensated it, by adding the deficiency thereby occasioned to the period subsequent to the Exodus.

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When the above was penned, I had not adverted to the fact that Mr Clinton had already given in his 309th page, a Syllabus of the scheme of Africanus. It will be found remarkably to confirm my observations. It appears that Africanus loses 2 years in the generation of Arphaxad, which I was not aware of, so that, instead of 3 years, as I had supposed, we want 5 years more than the 740, mentioned by Dr Routh, to make up his Chronology to the 8th of Solomon. Now, according to the Syllabus of his scheme given by Mr Clinton, his era of the Exodus is A. M. 3707, and the 3d of Solomon 4452; the difference is, therefore, exactly 745, being the precise number I computed as necessary.†

Fasti Hell., p. 286.

+ Mr Clinton, in stating the same Chronology in years Before Christ, differs 2 years from this number of 745; for he makes the Exodus, in the Chronology of Africanus, B. c. 1796, and the 3d of Solomon, B. c. 1049,-the difference is 747 years I cannot account for this discrepancy.

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