70 



this subject very attentivel}-, (giving us, as we have noticed, 

 minute chronologic characters omitted by less accurate his- 

 torians,) reckons from the exod, in eightieth year of Moses, 

 to the foundation of the temple, in the fourth year of Solo- 

 mon, 567 years and 7 months : 



567 7 



Thus I have, I trust, impartially staled the evidence and 

 authorities against the opinion I have thought proper to adopt; 

 and doubtless it will appear forcible and almost decisive : 

 yet many and great names may be adduced in support of the 

 controverted passage, (I Kings, 6-1,) whose theories I must 

 shortly recapitulate, and animadvert upon, before I produce 

 my own system, Avhich although agreeing with them, in sup- 

 porting the authenticity of the text, yet, as will appear, 

 differs most materially in the grounds on which it rests, and 

 in the answers which it opposes to the adherents of the con- 

 trary opinion. 



3d. The first name, in point of antiquit}-, who upheld the 

 authenticity of the contested text, was Eusebius, bishop of 



Caisarea 



