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But as the reader has doubtless observed some deviations, 

 both from Scripture, and from the present reading of Clemens 

 in the summary of Vignoles, I must subjoin his defence. 



1. Clemens, although he assigns 25 years to Joshua in his 

 catalogue, yet immediately afterwards mentions 27 years as 

 the duration of his magistracy, " according to the book that 

 bears his name," and although we do not find any such pe- 

 riod in the book of Josephus at present, he probably meant, 

 it was the opinion of the generality of authors in his time, 

 as in effect we see Theophilus, Eusebius, St. Augustine, and 

 Syncellus agree in allotting him this period.* 



2. After the mention of iEglon or Abdon, we read those 

 words in Clemens: " Some join to the forty of Elon, the 

 seven of Ibsan; the reading "40 years" being evidently 

 spurious, Hcrvctus translates it " four," and Usher agrees in 

 the amendment because three or four is the number attri- 

 buted to Eglon, by Nicephorus, and for the very obvious 

 reason, that it is to be included in the " seven" of Ibsan as 

 the greater number; but Archbishop Potter and Vignoles 

 jiropose the simple and evident correction of reading ri eV;? 

 in place of |M,' 'irn, in which 1 concur. 



3. The 



• Probably Clemens miffbt liave read such a number in liis tu|)y of the Septuagint, 

 into tlie text or margin of wltich it might have crept, frum the note of the transcriber 

 or ihc original possessor following the received opinion of his time, — a remaikab'e in- 

 stance of which practice, we have in the Sixtine Septuagint, edit. Rome, 15S0, where 

 the fortunes of Jeroboam, in Egypt, are related more circiiniMantially, llian in any other 

 Version. I'czron. 229. edit. & ut supra. 



