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THE
FIRST AND SECOND ADVENT:
OR,
The Past and the Future
WITH REFERENCE TO
THE JEW, THE GENTILE, AND THE CHURCH OF GOD.
PATERNOSTER ROW & HOLLES STREET;
JUDD & GLASS, NEW BRIDGE STREET.
MDCCCLVIII.
101. d. 470.
OTHE
BODLE
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE TIME OF THE FIRST ADVENT.-General expectation of the
Messiah's Advent according to the admission of the heathen
writers-Testimony of Scripture-Of Philo-Judæus-Josephus-
Suetonius — Tacitus — Celsus —The Sybilline oracles-Jacob's
prophecy, Gen. xlix. 9, 10-Daniel's prophecy of "the seventy
weeks"-The decree given in the twentieth year of the reign of
Artaxerxes for rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem, the only one
which explains satisfactorily "the seven weeks and sixty-two
weeks "
CHAPTER II.
THE TIME OF THE FIRST ADVENT.-The common opinion for the
date of the crucifixion, a.d. 33, considered-The fall of Sejanus
decisive against its being so late as A.D. 33-The true date of
Artaxerxes' accession to the throne of Persia according to
Thucydides, Charon of Lampsacus, Eusebius, Usher, and an
Egyptian inscription, a guide for fixing the commencement of the
seventy weeks"-Whiston's mode of reconciling the discre-
pancy between the Canon of Ptolemy and contemporary authori-
ties concerning the date of Artaxerxes' accession-Ptolemy's
Canon proved erroneous with regard to that event by the Arun-
delian marbles-The Passover always observed on the fourteenth
day of the month, another guide-The testimony of Phlegon
respecting the supernatural darkness at the crucifixion con- sidered
...
CHAPTER III.
THE TIME OF THE FIRST ADVENT.-Inference from Scripture
respecting the date of the crucifixion-Time of Herod the
Great's death determined by the lunar eclipse, March 23rd, B.C.
5, and not as commonly supposed by the eclipse, March 13th, of
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