demonstrated to have been translated from an ancient, as it appears, and a correct copy of the Hebrew, we have with reason made use of it in the present chronography, and the more especially since the church of Christ spread through the whole world adheres to it alone, the Apostles and disciples of our Saviour having from the beginning delivered that it is to be used.”[60] Dr. Kennicott, in his “Dissertatio Generalis,” Sect. 83, p. 37, also cites the words of Ephrem Syrus, who flourished near the end of the same century, in which he charges the Jews with having abstracted 600 years from the generations of the Antediluvian patriarchs in order that their own books might not convict them concerning the coming of Christ, who had been predicted to appear for the deliverance of mankind after 5500 years. 2. Description of the Ages of the World from Hesiod—Error of Newton—The Golden Age corresponds to the Antediluvian—The Silver to the Postdiluvian—The Brazen, Heroic and Iron ages, to the Patriarchal, Critarchal and Monarchal—These ages relate chiefly to Greece—References to Scripture history in all—The Sixth or Cumæan age corresponds to the Hierarchal—Wisdom of the Heathens—Their expectation of a Divine Instructor—Socrates, Plato, Eupolis, Virgil, and others, anticipate his glorious Advent—The close of the _Sixth age_ indicates the arrival of the _Seventh_, or the return of the _Golden age_. The Greek and Roman Poets borrowed their sublime ideas concerning the Ages of the World, from the Sacred writings and traditions of the Jews; and alas! they transmuted the fine gold of Mount Sion into the base metal of Helicon and Parnassus. Hence arose the Poetical appellations of the first _Six ages_ which are to be found in the most ancient and celebrated writings of the Heathen. The distinct recognition of the _Seventh age_ appears not to have been very general, at least among the poets; or rather, it seems to have been frequently confounded or identified with the _Sixth age_. The following, however, is an enumeration of the _Poetical_ ages which is clearly to be traced in the writings of the oldest authors; to each, we have added the names of the corresponding _Scriptural_ Ages, for the sake of comparison and connection. _First_, the _Golden_ Age which corresponds to the _Antediluvian_; _Second_, the _Silver_ Age, to the _Postdiluvian_; _Third_, the _Brazen_ Age, to the _Patriarchal_; _Fourth_, the _Heroic_ Age, to the _Critarchal_; _Fifth_, the _Iron_ Age, to the _Monarchal_; and _Sixth_, the _Last_ or _Cumæan_ Age, to the _Hierarchal_. In this enumeration, we do not mean, of course, to convey the idea that each of the _Poetical_ Ages is precisely limited by the epochs which serve to fix and determine the _Scriptural_ Ages of the Jews; but merely to indicate that there is such a connection between them as serves to prove their common origin, and to establish the chronology of both on a secure