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dictions ; since he reckons the 4 first as exclusive, and the 3' 

 last as inclusive; and whatever authority the two last may 

 have, that they should be reckoned inclusively, it is evident 

 from the whole series of this enquiry, that the first have 

 still stronger claims to be so included. 



2nd. The great objection of making the servitudes com- 

 mence in the very year of the death of the last deliverer, ap^^ 

 plies with great force against this system, particularly, it 

 makes the servitude under Jabin, commence the very year the 

 jurisdiction, or rather repose under Ehud concluded, forget- 

 ting Shamgar succeeded him, whose title to the character of a 

 judge, we have formerly established. 



3d. Since he reckons the 40 years of the 6th oppression,, 

 under the Philistines, as commencing in the year of Abdon's- 

 death, and flowing on contemporaneously with the juris- 

 dictions of Samson and Eli, he has evidently neglected the 

 authority of Scripture, which represents Sampson to have 

 been born after the commencement of this oppression, so that 

 like Marsham, he seems to commence his jurisdiction Avith. 

 his birth. 



4. Although Petavius is justified in granting to Eli but 

 20 years, by the authority of the Sixline edition of the Septu- 

 agint, and the Polyglott of Walton, still there is some reason 

 to hesitate on adopting this reading against the Hebrew,, 

 the ChaLdaic Paraphrase, the Targum of Jonathan, the Com- 



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