76 The passage consists really of two members, each of which is arranged as an introversion, where the subject of 1 corresponds to 7; 2 corresponds to 6; etc. 77 General Vallancey spells _Saros_ שׂערוֹץ, which amounts to 666 by Gematria! _Viz._, ש = 300 + ע = 70 + ר = 200 + ו = 6 + ץ = 90 = 666. 78 These facts are kindly supplied by Mr. E. W. Maunder, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, who gives another example, as follows:— In A.D. 586 there were two solar eclipses: on June 22 (Julian) the old and dying eclipse, and on July 22 (Julian) another (the new one). A _Saros_ (_viz._, 18 years and 11 days) earlier _there was only one_, _viz._ on June 11 (Julian), A.D. 568, there being no eclipse on July 11 of that year. The last appearance of this new eclipse, which first appeared on July 22, 586, was on August 28 (Greg.), 1848, so that it had a life history of 70 _Sari_, amounting to 1,262 years 36 days (after the Julian dates have been corrected to correspond to the Gregorian). Thus the eclipse that died, so to speak, on August 28 (Greg.), 1848, first appeared on July 22 (Julian) in A.D. 586. See an important article on Eclipses by Mr. E. W. Maunder in _Knowledge_, for October 1893, where other _life‐histories_ of eclipses are given, and the whole subject of eclipses clearly explained. 79 The relations between 595 years and 1,262 years 36 days, are the same as the relations between 594 years and 1,260 years. The difference of the 2 years 36 days is due to the excess of 10.96 days over the 18 completed years in each _Saros._ 80 This is the date which concerns only the _City of Jerusalem_. The Romans were not completely driven out from _the land_ until Cæsarea had fallen in 638, when the conquest was finally completed. See Gibbon’s _Decline and Fall_. 81 This date 636‐7 is a great and important central date, whether we reckon backwards or forwards; whether we reckon them as _Lunar_, _Zodiacal_ (360 days), or _Solar_ (365 days) years. (1.) If we take _Lunar years_ (= 1222‐1/2 Solar)— (a.) reckoning _backward_, we get to 587 B.C., the very date of the destruction of the Temple by Nebuchadnezzar. (b.) reckoning _forward_, we get to 1860 A.D., the very date of the European intervention in the Lebanon, which has brought the Eastern Question into its present prominent position. (2.) If we take _Zodiacal years_ (= 1242 Solar)— (a.) reckoning _backward_ we get to 608 B.C., the date of the battle of Carchemish (2 Chron. xxxv. 20), when Babylon completed the conquest of Assyria, and became supreme; utterly shattering all the hope which Israel had in Egypt.