This is the history of one such eclipse: On May 15 (Julian), 850 A.D., there was a (new) eclipse of the sun, and it occurred as a _partial_ eclipse. On August 20 (Julian), 1012 A.D., this new eclipse became _total_. From that time it has been an _annular_ eclipse, the latitude of the central shadow gradually shifting southward from the north, until on December 17 (Julian), 1210, it had reached N. Lat. 24°. It turned northward again after 1210, until March 14 (Julian), 1355, when it fell in N. Lat. 43°. Then it turned south, and has moved steadily in that direction, until on March 18 (Greg.), 1950, its last appearance as an annular eclipse will take place. On May 22 (Greg.), 2058, it will fall so far from the node that a new eclipse will follow it on June 21. It will make three more appearances as an ever‐diminishing partial eclipse, and be last seen on June 24 (Greg.), 2112. Its total life‐history, therefore, will have been 1,262 years and 36 days, and will have occupied 70 _Sari_. In the above life‐history of an eclipse(78) there is not the slightest difficulty as to its identification. The _Saros_ shows no break, and no interruption; nor does the character of the eclipse suffer any abrupt change. The district over which it is visible moves in a slow and orderly fashion from occurrence to occurrence over the earth’s surface. Now the important point is this, that if we take the prophetic reckoning of 360 days to the year, we have the following significant Biblical numbers:— In the first place, we already have the 70 ± _Sari_ divided into two portions of 33 + 37. A perfect cycle is accomplished in 33 _Sari_, or 595 years, when the eclipse, by a series of unbroken _Sari_, has accomplished a passage through the year of 360 days; or, if we reckon only the whole numbers, _i.e._, the 18 completed years, we have for the 33 _Sari_ the period of 594 years, while the remaining portion of 37 _Sari_ makes 666 years (37 x 18) ; and the whole 70 ± _Sari_ makes 1,260 years (594 + 666).(79) We have then the following figures:— 18 x 33 = 594 years. 18 x 37 = 666 years. 18 x 70 = 1260 years. Independently of this, we also know that 1,260 years is a soli‐lunar cycle, so exact that its epact, or difference, is only 6 hours! There must, therefore, be something significant in these numbers, _e.g._, 70; in the number 1,260, with its divisions, not into two equal parts, but into 594 and 666; as also in its double, 2,520. There must be something to be learned in the occurrence and repetition of these heavenly cycles, which for nearly 6,000 years have been constantly repeated in the heavens, especially when we find these same numbers very prominently presented in the Word of God in connection with the fulfilment of prophecy.