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Difference between the chronology of the Septuagint and He-
brew of 1500 years.-
Return to the TWO PROPOSITIONS at the head of this Lecture. -
Quere," Can these things be?".

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Various forms of speech used in Scripture to designate TIME. -
The term "Day," Gen. i. The argument of analogy, a pri-
ori, from the WORD of God, harmonizes with the argument a
posteriori, from the WORKS of God.

The length of the SEVENTH DAY determines (homogeneously)

the length of each of the six days.

The Seventh Day, when did it commence? What is length ?. 130
Objection, no express declaration of this in Scripture.....
Answer to this, as founded on inferential proof. -Questions from
the most ancient Brahmenical Sages. Jewish writers.-
Christian writers. The SCRIPTURES.......

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Has finally attained to great perfection.....

Length of the Solur year. Of the Lunar.

-The latter adopted
by the Arabians, forms the measurement of time of the Ma-
homedan Era. Profane history measured by the Solar year

1 of 365 days.

Length of the Ante-diluvian year.............

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Dr. Halley's account of the ancient philosophers......

The Brazen Age. -Era of Sesostris. -- Thales, the first to cor-
rect the Greek year. The Greeks however, not the "pion-
eers" of astronomical science. Their astronomy between
the time of Solon and Hipparchus, vague and undefined.
The Attic or Athenian lunar year. The Macedonian Calen-
dar. -The Greek Eucumenical Council. The era of the
Seleucidae. The Cecropian Era and Parian Chronicle.-The
Consular Era. The Olympiads."

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Origin and progress of Cycles, to harmonize the Lunar with the
Solar year. Cleostratus.. The first Cycle of Dieteres, of
two years. — The Tetraeteris, a Cycle of four years.—The
Octoeteris, of eight years. The Cycle, of Meto, of nineteen!
- The Calippic Cycle of seventy-six years. The Juli-i
an, and Juliano-Gregorian Cycle, now the universally ad-
mitted standard.....

years.

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Difficulties, in applying "Signs" to the future.............
Prophetic symbols defined.....

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Second class.

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