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27 years. I quote the copy, in the I^mvam edition of the 

 Fathers, in Marsh's library), ami evidently contrary to the 

 authority of Scripture, (Jos^hua, 23-1.) Avhere Joshua is said 

 " to have waxed old and stricken in years," after the con- 

 quest and the division of the land, and (c. 24. v. 29.) he died 

 aged 1 10 years. Now, we learn, (Joshua, c. 14-7 •) that Caleb 

 was 40 years old when he was sent to view the land with 

 Joshua, and as lie (Caleb) was 85 years of age at the division 

 of the land, (Joshua, 14-10.) it will follow, that, supposing 

 Joshua nearly of the age of Caleb, (which certainly has some 

 verisimilitude, as he would be taken in the flower of his youth 

 for an office of such responsibility and exertion as that of a 

 spy), that he survived the division of the land, at least 15 

 years. On what principle, then^ does Usher abridge his go- 

 vernment to six } 



6dly. The sense of the sacred historian, (Judges, c. 3-4-11.) 

 appears- evidently to allot but 40 years repose after (or, as 

 Usher will have it, to) the period of Othniel's victory ; yet 

 his calculus would give us 62 years, viz. from A. Jul. Per. 

 3309i to the oppression of Eglon, 3371. 



Similarly, he allows but 20 years to Ehud, m place of 80, 

 (Judges 3. 30.) ; to the third repose, instead of 40 years, he 

 allots but 33 ; to the fourth, only 9, as we have seen in the 

 first objection. 



4tli, His supputation will not agree with the niessage of 

 Jepthabto the king of the Ammonites, (Judges, c. 11. v. 26.) 

 in which he computed 300 years from the conquest of the 



Amorite* 



