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and circumstances recorded. But how shall we prove that record
correct? The astronomer unravels the devious movements
of the sun, the earth, and the moon, through the whole period
of three thousand years; with the power of intellect,
he goes backward through the cycles of thirty long centuries,
and announces that at such an hour and such a day -as
the Chaldean has written -- that eclipse did take
place." p. 187, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
Respecting the authority of the Canon of Ptolemy,
Prideaux, thus speaks:-- p. 187, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
"But Ptolemy's Canon being fixed by the eclipses, the
truth of it may at any time be demonstrated by astronomical
calculations, and no one hath ever calculated those
eclipses but hath found them fall right in the times where
placed; and therefore this being the surest guide which we
have in the chronology, and it being also verified by its
agreement everywhere with the Holy Scriptures, it is not,
for the authority of any other human writing whatsoever, to
be receded from." (1) p. 187, Para. 4, [LOOKING].
Thus positively do we find the date for which we seek.
From B.C. 457 the seventy weeks are to be reckoned. p.
187, Para. 5, [LOOKING].
(1) Vol. i, p. 242. p. 187, Para. 6, [LOOKING].
Chapter 23 -- INTERMEDIATE AND CLOSING DATES OF THE SEV-
ENTY WEEKS p. 188, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
FROM the seventh of Artaxerxes Longimanus, B.C. 457, the
point from which we have found that the seventy weeks are
to be dated, we drop the plummet down through following
years to ascertain whether, measuring our lines according
to the prophecy, we strike the other events which the prediction
brings to our view. p. 188, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
The first line is forty-nine years in length; for, says
the prophecy, there shall be seven weeks (49 symbolic days,
or 49 literal years), during which the street and wall
"shall be built again" in troublous times. Dan. 9:25. By
this first division of time we are brought to the date when
the work of building was completed; and this was finished
in the last act of reformation under Nehemiah, in the fifteenth
year of Darius Nothus. p. 188, Para. 3, [LOOKING].