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ably to our interpretation of St. Paul, (Act. 13. 19.) and to 

 the arguments we have urged against Joscphus. 



8. In granting only twenty years to Saul, •' after the re- 

 newal of the kingdom," which was before the rejection of 

 Saul, he is clearly at variance with Josephus, who allots him 

 20 years " aftei^ the death of Samuel ;" and still more so^ 

 when Clemens declares expressly, " Saul died two years after 

 Samuel," a great authority for the reasoning we have sub- 

 mitted against Josephus and Vignoles. 



9. He rejects the supputation of St. Paul, as our system 

 obliges us. 



But while Clemens affords us so many arguments in fa- 

 vour of the hypothesis we adopt, he is obnoxious tp seve- 

 ral of the objections we have urged against the adherents and 

 supporters of the enlarged interval. He has contrary to every 

 rule of sound criticism, made the different servitudes succeed 

 in the very year of the death of the preceding judge; he has 

 confounded the sense and meaning of the term " repose" 

 and " jurisdiction ;" he has, in some instances, deviated from 

 the express declaration of Scripture (as in the article of Jair) 

 he has made the 40 years of Eli, succeed the twenty of Samp- 

 son, which he admits concluded with the Philistine oppression, 

 thus making Sampson complete the deliverance he was only 

 to begin; and he has contradicted the computation of Jepli- 

 thah to the Ammonites; but if we subduct the years of the 

 several oppressions, and include them in the years assigned 

 to the judges, as our system necessitates and determines, his 



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