Chronikon Hebraikon - The World's Age Scriptually Demonstrated
First Period - From the Creation to the Deluge
Embraces 1656 Years
| A.M. | Names and Events | Reference | B.C. |
| 130 235 325 395 460 622 687 874 1056 1656 |
Creation Adam aged 130 at the birth of Seth Seth aged 105 .... Enos aged 90 .... Cainan aged 70 .... Mahalaleel aged 65 .... Jared aged 162 .... Enoch aged 65 .... Methuselah aged 187 .... Lamech aged 182 .... Noah aged 600 at the Flood |
Gen. 1:2 Gen. 5:3 Gen. 5:6 Gen. 5:9 Gen. 5:12 Gen. 5:15 Gen. 5:18 Gen. 5:21 Gen. 5:25 Gen. 5:28 Gen. 8:13,14 |
4089 3959 3854 3764 3694 3629 3467 3402 3215 3033 2433 |
NOTES ON THE FIRST PERIOD.
- Chronology, in relation to history, is the Science of Time, or the ascertaining of the correct dates of past events, and the proper arrangement of them.
- It is of two kinds, sacred and profane.
- SACRED CHRONOLOGY is divided into two parts, the historic and prophetic.
- For our data in sacred chronology we are entirely dependent on the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures.
- Great confusion exists in determining the true epochs of the Creation, the Deluge, and the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, among those who are not satisfied with the Hebrew original. In Dr. Hales' Chronology may be found a hundred and twenty different opinions, among some 300, on the epoch of the Creation, dating backward from the birth of Christ.
- Out of twenty-nine computations of the World's age before me, I find only one that approximates to the truth, and that is the reckoning of the Chinese Jews, who make the world 4,079 years at the Nativity. This is within ten years of the truth.
- The wide discrepancies of chronologists are not owing to a defect of the data of the record, but to the want of a
proper knowledge of the subjects treated of in the Scriptures.
1. -- The Millenary Week of 7,000 Years.
- All things are ordered by the Deity, who has assigned to the SIN-CONSTITUTION OF THINGS upon earth, a limited and definite duration of 7,000 years, commencing from the Creation, and ending with the destruction of "the last enemy DEATH."
- This 7,000 years is the GREAT DEMIURGIC WEEK of that Creation which continues eternally and unchanged; and is typified by the smaller demiurgic week familiarly known as the Mosaic.
- It is a very ancient tradition that, as the Deity employed Six Days in fitting up the earth for the indwelling of sinners, and ceased creating on the Seventh, which He hallowed; so He will consume Six Days of a thousand years each in preparing it for the inhabitation of saints; and ceasing therefrom, will hallow the seventh period of a thousand years as "a season and time" of rest and blessedness for the regenerated world. Paul evidently endorses this traditional view in Heb. 4:9.
- The Millennium is the Sabbath Day of the previous Six Thousand years.
2. -- The Chronological Chain.
- The Chronological Chain of Scripture is Historico-Prophetic. From the Creation to the Deluge is purely historical;
but from the First of Nebuchadnezzar to the First of Darius the Mede, and from the 20th of Artaxerxes to the Crucifixion,
historico-prophetical. These periods of 70 and 490 years respectively, were expressly foretold; and the years intervening
between the beginning and the end of each, corroborate each other: so that by the mutual aid of sacred history and
prophecy, I have been enabled to prove all my positions.
In one place, Dan. 8:14, I believe the original text has been deliberately corrupted by the Jews - 2,400 having been shortened to 2,300 - in order to suit the period to their notions concerning Antiochus. In no other place is there any reason to complain of unfaithfulness in the original.
- But few generations intervened between Adam and Moses. Seven consecutive historic links only were required to bridge this interval. Whence had Adam all his knowledge? From revelation. All he knew antecedent to observation and experience must have been communicated by the Deity. What he knew he could impart to Lamech, the father of Noah, who was 56 years contemporary with Adam. Noah was the third link of the sevenfold chain, and conversed with his father 595 years. Noah was 58 years contemporary with Abram. Then comes Noah's son Shem, who, as the fourth link, was contemporary with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the last of whom was 50 years old at the end of Shem's earthly career. These fathers were the fifth. After them Joseph, the sixth, who died 74 years before the birth of Moses, and 154 years before the Exodus. And lastly, the Elders in Egypt to the time of Moses.
- The following extract, mostly from Hales' Chronology, supplies an example of the widely different opinions of Chronologists on the epoch of Creation, dating backward from the Nativity.
BIBLICAL TEXTS AND VERSIONS. | ||
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The Septuagint Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samaritan Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hebrew Text, as interpreted by chronologists . . . . . . . . English Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
B.C. 5586 4305 4161 4004 |
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"JEWISH" COMPUTATIONS. | ||
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Playfair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Universal History. . . . . . . . . . . . . |
5555 5481 5402 4698 |
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**Chinese Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vulgar Jewish Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
4079 3760 |
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"DIVINES" OF THE LAODICEAN APOSTASY. | ||
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Clemens Alexandrinus . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Hales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Origen, A.D. 230 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shimeall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Usher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
5624 5411 4830 4132 4004 3961 |
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