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.

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

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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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