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presenting how inconsistent his admission is, with the prin- 

 ciples he has laid down, or with the severe animadversions be 

 has passed on the judgment and hypothesis of the bishop of 

 Caesarea; — In the same spirit, I shall refrain from observing 

 on tlie period ('2 years) he allots to th<? government of tiie 

 Elders, and 'the interval between the death of Joslma and 

 the first servitude; or its consistency with the tinor of Scrip- 

 ture, or the conclusions of analogy and reason — supposing 

 that the remarks already sulimitted on this period, in answer 

 to the hypothesis of other Chronologists, will apply equally 

 to this, and be of themselves suthcient to invalidate the 

 reasoning of the learned author. 



VI. The S3'stem of Josephus is almost the only one that re- 

 mains to be discussed, but 1 shall dismiss it in a few words, 

 as being generally inconsistent with hinjself, with Scripture, 

 and with collateral testimony; as being liable, and exposed to 

 all the remarks we have urged against other authors; from 

 his placing the commencement of the servitudes, in the 

 very year of the death of the preceding judge — from his mis- 

 conception of the different import of the terms " repose" 

 and " jurisdiction" — from the inconsistently short period he 

 has allotted to Samuel ; (only 12 years) from the difficulty, or 

 almost impossibility, of making his several items coincide 

 with the aggregates he assigns, it being evident that, as he 

 intends to transcribe Scripture, his separate intervals are 

 of course, to be reconciled with himself, and with it, as the 



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