237 



But, assuming the numbers to be correct, if we examine 

 more particularly into the supputation of St. Paul, we shall 

 find that, from the conquest of the land to the government 

 of Samuel, being, according to him, 450 years, he affords us 

 a strong argument for sonie of the principal items in our cal- 

 culus. For, if we reckon the 3^ears of the Judges, and servi- 

 tudes, consecutively, as we meet them in the Books of Judges 

 and Samuel, we shall collect exactli/* 450 years, from the first 



year 



The Alex, exemplar, in England, reads, - ' 



"J^i-xs. xp.Tftj. Quod ipsum quoque inter diversas illas lectiones reperlur quas Novo test. 

 Parisius an. 1 568 Grasce a se excuso Robertus Stephanus subjiciendas curavit; consen- 

 tiente quuque codice quodam GrEeco, alio Parisiis item edito & a Beza in annotationibus 

 ad hunc locum producto; et Novi collegii apud Oxoiiienses exeniplari manuscripto al- 

 tero. nisi quod hoc, absit pronomen mry potest yw, in illo, addatur anJro; post verbura 

 tiiixi. Usher, p. 67 



The edaion of the New Testament, by Gregorius, has in the notes, the correction of 

 other manu-cr ipts, thus — 



ma-'.l fi.nx riifdMcna, ii«l ■amiiMna, hn & connectitcum versu sup. Sic N"^. 2 l^ Wf. ind^- 

 sequuntur xal i^tra havra. i^uKi xpiraj. 



• MSS. Collegii Nov. Oxon. Wechelii sive Junii. 



Curcellaeus Amst. I 658 Elzevir reads the same, but from perhaps similar sources. 

 Maximus Calliopolite.s, m his Testament, which is published in two columns collatino- 



different versions, one of which he denominates Neov reads in the tiov 



Vu! TsTpaxoo-iai •ctsjSvtx. With this last word I am not acquainted. In Coll. Dub. 



* This affords us a very strong argument for the correction of the text ; the numbers 

 in the book of Judges, amount exactly to the period assigned by the apostle; why then 

 should he use a dubious and qualifying term, aVsi, quasi, or as onr Eno-lish Translation 

 has it, " by about .'" &c. Surely, it was improper, if he meant to adhere to the literal' 

 fidelity ot the text, but it was natural, obvious, and correct, if the amendment of Beza i»- 

 admitted, for the interval was really " about 350 years." 



