------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | BOOKS. | AFTER | CONTEMPORARY LANDMARKS. | PENTECOST. | -------------+------------+---------------------------------------------- 1 Peter | 16 | Claudius Caesar ruled from A.D. 41 to 54. Galatians | 18 | 1 Thess | 19 | Romans settled in England between 41 and 54. 2 Thess | 20 | 1 Cor | 24 | Nero ruled from 54 to 68. 2 Cor | 25 | 1 Timothy | 25 | Paul and Peter were martyred at Rome in or Romans | 25 | about the year 63; 30 years after Pentecost. James | 28 | Matthew | 28 | Persecution continues under Nero until the Mark | 28 | year 68. The satirist Juvenal, who lived Philemon | 29 | under Nero, and his brother satirist Martial, Collosians | 29 | both allude to the burnings of the Christians Ephesians | 29 | in pitched shirts. Philippians | 29 | Luke | 30 | Suetoneus, writing of what took place under Acts | 30 | Emperor Claudius, in 53, makes mention of Hebrews | 30 | Christ. 2 Peter | 34 | 2 Timothy | 34 | Galba, Otho and Vitelleus rule from 68 to 69. Titus, about | 34 | Jude, about | 34 | Christians have peace from 68 to 95. Epistles | | of St. John | | 1, 2, 3 | 40 | Jerusalem was destroyed in the year 70. Revelations | | of Jesus | | Christ | | to John | 64 | Vespasian rules from 69 to 79. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CARLYLE'S ESTIMATE OF THE BOOK OF JOB, IN HIS OWN WORDS. "I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest books ever written with a pen. One feels, indeed, as if it were not Hebrew--such a noble universality, different from noble patriotism or sectarianism, reigns in it. A noble book! All men's book! It is our first, oldest statement of the never-ending problem of man's destiny and God's ways with him here on this earth, and all in such free, flowing outlines, grand in its simplicity and its epic melody and repose of reconcilement! There is the seeing eye, the mildly understanding heart. So true every way; true eye-sight and vision for all things--material things no less than spiritual; the horse--'thou hast clothed his neck with thunder;' 'he laughs at the shaking of the spear!' Such living likenesses were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow! Sublime reconciliation! Oldest choral melody, as of the heart of mankind! So soft and great, as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and stars! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit." (Dr. Cotton's Scrap-Book.) WHAT I LIVE FOR.