5462 The 63d Week of Daniel ends 17 5462 The Temple at Jerusalem rebuilt by Herod 17 5476 The 65th Week of Daniel ends 3 5476 BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST 3 5478 Reign of Archelaus 1 A.D. 5478 VULGAR ERA OF CHRISTIANITY 1 5486 Judea made a Roman Province 8 5492 Reign of Tiberius Cesar 14 5504 The 69th Week of Daniel ends 26 5505 Pontius Pilate procurator of Judea 27 5506 BAPTISM OF CHRIST 28 5511 The 70th Week of Daniel ends 33 5511 THE CRUCIFIXION AND ASCENSION 33 5511 THE FIFTH EMPIRE 33 ----- Footnote 1: ‘Ο πᾶs χρόνος καὶ τὰ ἔτη δείκνυται, τοντοῖς βονλομένοῖς πείθεσθαι τῇ ἄληθείᾳ.—Theoph. ad Autol. Lib. III. p. 273, Oxon. 1684. Footnote 2: See his “Syntagma de Septuaginta,” p. 13, Lond. 1655, and his “Chronologia Sacra,” p. 46, Oxon. 1660. In our subsequent citations, these editions are followed; the latter is denominated “Opus Posthumum hucusque ἀνέκδοτον.” Footnote 3: This translation, which is from the Septuagint, may be considered as too free by some; but we conceive that it expresses the true meaning of the passage, which is not conveyed in our common version; for the earth abideth _not_ for ever! Footnote 4: The reader will find an explanation of Mr. Cuninghame’s argument in the second part of this Dissertation. Footnote 5: Revelation xiii. 17. Footnote 6: Ibid. xxii. 19. Footnote 7: Dr. Hales says, “The Targum of Jonathan Ben Uzziel, of the highest authority among the Jews, thus paraphrases Gen. iv. 25: ‘And Adam knew his wife when 130 years were completed after Abel was killed.’ And the same account is furnished by the Bereshith Rabba, More Nevochim, Midrash Tanchuma, Solomon Jarchi, Elias, and others of their principal writers.”—See his “Analysis of Chronology,” vol. i. p. 80. Indeed, the whole of the second article of the second section of his Introduction, is well worth perusal, being full of very curious and interesting matter, all tending powerfully to prove that the longer computation of the Septuagint was the true and original computation of the Hebrew text. His comparison of the Masorete and Samaritan texts in regard to Genesis xi. 10–32, is very valuable; see p. 82. Footnote 8: “Syntagma,” cap. iv. p. 34. Footnote 9: