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day on which, according to some of the early Christians,* the 
crucifixion really took place. 
20. Remembering that this interpretation of a very famous 
prophecy has been confirmed by the valuable testimony of the 
Egyptian monuments, I propose to ask your attention to the 
further confirmation which those monuments afford to the 
truth of Bibilical chronology, as understood by the ancient 
Hebrews ; and inasmuch as this is rather a complicated subject, 
I would select a particular point in Egyptian history for the 
purpose of testing how far the chronologies agree, and then 
calculate backwards and forwards in order to prove further 
agreement in the same. 
21. Although it is commonly said that sacred and secular 
chronology do not come into contact until the time of the 
Babylonish Captivity, i.e. during the sixth century B.C., when 
one, as it were, ends, and the other has its more certain beginning, 
almost all chronologcrs are agreed that an event as early as the 
building of Solomon’s temple is a fair starting-point on which 
the various computations may be said to rest. Scripture chro- 
nology places the date of that event at B.C. 1014, which is 
confirmed by secular chronology in this way. It is a well- 
ascertained date that Carthage was taken and destroyed by 
Scipio in the fourth and last year of the third Punic w r ar, which 
answers to B.C. 146. Solinus and Cato both say that Carthage 
had then existed 737 years, which would fix the date of its 
building at B.C. 883. Menander, the Ephesian (who, accoord- 
ing to Josephus, f “ wrote the acts done both by the Greeks and 
Barbarians under every one of the Syrian kings,” in whose annals 
the building of Solomon’s Temple is specially mentioned as 
having occurred during the reign of Hiram, King of Tyre, in 
accordance with the historical statements of 1 Kings v.), gives 
155 years from the building of Carthage to the commencement 
of Hiram’s reign, which would bring that event up to B.C. 1038. 
Hiram reigned, according to Menander, for a period of thirty- 
four years, and his reign would therefore terminate B.C. 1005. 
It is quite clear from Scripture, that Hiram was contemporary 
with both David and Solomon for several years ; and according 
to this computation it must have been iu the twenty-sixth year 
of his reign, which synchronized with the fourth of Solomon’s, 
that the Temple of Jerusalem was begun to be built. Bunsen, 
who has gone into this matter Avith very deep research, and based 
* The Qnartailecimans, see note to end of § 13. 
+ Josephus, Contr. Apion., lib. i. §§ 17, 10. 
