'75 



after the vocation of Abraham, and 592 after the departure 

 from Egypt."— Edit. Gen. 1609. 



Eutychius also, the learned patriarch of Alexandria, with 

 whom we have become acquainted through the labours of 

 the illustrious orientalist Pococke, adds his name and au- 

 thority to the hosts already mentioned, reckoning from the 

 exod, to the reign of David 606 years, adding then, the 40 

 years of David, and four first of Solomon, agreeably to 1 

 Kings, 6-1, we have 650 years from the exod to the foun- 

 dation of the temple. 



In fine, to avoid accumulating evidence and materials un- 

 necessarily, we shall conclude with Clemens Alexandrinus, 

 whose woiks, in arranging the series of evcn-ts in ancient his- 

 tory; in synchronizing the times of sacred and profane chro- 

 nology; and in preserving valuable notices from the writings 

 of several authors, who have not themselves come down to 

 us, will ever be highly estimated by the learned. " From 

 the beginning of the Judges," says he, " until the end of the 

 government of Samuel, there are 463 years and 7 months, 

 (and he counts Joshua the first judge,) after that," he adds, 

 " Saul reigned 20 years alone, then David 40; so that, ac- 

 cording to our chronology, which is most exact, if to the 523 

 and 7 months to the death of David, you add the 120 years 

 of Moses and the 40 of Solomon, there are from th6 birth of 

 Moses to the death of Solomon, 683 years and 7 months." 

 We see then, that Clemens, who appears to have considered 



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