183 



Little will be necessary to overthrow the authority of this 

 system ; 



1st. rt commences the oppression of Chusan the year after 

 the partition, contrary to the express and reiterated decla- 

 rations of Scripture, to which we have so often referred the 

 reader. 



2d. Sampson, instead of "judging Israel in the days of 

 the Philistines," succeeds their oppression. 



3. Servitudes are made to commence uniformly in the 

 year, concluding the administration of the last judge. 



4. Jurisdiction and repose are held to be synonimous — 

 contrary, as we have shewn, to evidence and reason. 



III. Whiston, in his Dissertations, prefixed to Josephus, 

 attempts to reconcile the latter to the text of J Kings. 6. 1. 

 his system is as follows: — 



Moses 40 

 Joshua 25 



Elders 18 



1 Ser. of Chushan 8 



Othniel 40 



2 Servitude Moab J 8 



Ehud 8 vide infra , 



Sham war 1 

 VOL. XI. 2 B 3 0pp. 



• It is observable, Walton publishes a lelter of one of the Capelli to his brother, ap- 

 jTovingof this system. 



