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1. Kings 6". 1. 480 years, or that of the Septuagint, is to be 

 followed," (Apud Sjn. ut supra) surelj, we will agree, that 

 there seems as little of the prevention of system, or the partis 

 alities of hypothesis, in the opinion he has delivered, as in that 

 of any known author. It has been said, indeed, that the tra- 

 dition of the Jews he professes to follow is his own, or noticed 

 only by him, and of course, rests only on his authority ; but we 

 have seen it has received the countenance of the creat He- 

 braist, St. Jerome, and is to be met with in the Fasti Siculi, or 

 the Chronicon Paschale, the author of which, as he certainlij 

 differs in his system, does not, I believe, once mention Euse- 

 bius, or allude to his authority ; a fact which seems to have 

 been overlooked, when the traditional interpretation of the 

 Jews is represented, as resting on his single testimony. 



After considering so much at length, the arguments of the 

 learned author, it only remains that I recal to the reader's 

 attention, the support and defence, which some of the items 

 of the calculus we support, have received from his authority; 

 in admitting that the servitudes of the Ammonites and of the 

 Philistines, should be considered as flowing on contempo- 

 raneously with the times of the judges corresponding to 

 them ; and so thankful do I feel myself, that he has thrown 

 the mantle of his character and his learning over those points, 

 that 1 reject without dissatisfaction, the invidious task of re- 



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