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^Commentary
Chapter i. i. and the beginning of molt of the Hiflorical
J. Books of the Old Teftament ^ which Particle is ve-
V>^V>w/ ry properly tranflated in thofe places, Sow it
came to pafs
Fancy of Spinoza, who would conclude from
hence that this Book of E&ekiel is but a Fragment
of a larger Book, and contained feveral Prophecies,
now loft, which were in order of time before thofe
: So that there is no ground for the
fet down in thefe and the following Chapters.
Ibid. In the Thirtieth Tear"] It is a great Queftion
from whence this Computation of Time commences
The molt probable Anfwers are ^ firlt that of Scalu
per, who fuppofes this Thirtieth Year to be meant
of the Years of Nabupola/fars Reign : who, as he
tells us from Berofus, quoted by Jofephus, l.i. Contr,
App, reigned 29 Years compleat : So the Thirtieth
Year, here mentioned, was the lad Year of his
Reign and Life: And is likewifethe 13th Year current
of his Son Nabuchadne&zars Reign, who
reigned fo many Years together with his Father.
See Scaligers Canon I/agog. p. 281. 294. his Prolegom,
ad Lib, de emend, Temporum j and his Notes
on the Greek Fragments, at the end of thofe Books.
But there is one confiderable Objeclion againft
this Opinion of Scaliger, that according to Berofus's
Account, as his words are quoted in another place
of Jofephus, Antiq, 1. x. c. ii. Nabupolaffar reigned
only 21 Years, the Greek Text reading by a little
Variation, tutcai i? for luyoi twice. Which is the fame
number of Years affigned to Nabupolaffar in the
uEra Nabonaffari, and agrees better with Berofus's
own ftory, viz, that when he had committed the
command of the Army to his Son, and fent him on
an