The actual _duration_ of the three kingdoms that followed—Babylon, Medo‐ Persia, and Greece, may not perhaps be so accurately determined. Their total duration is known, because it is fixed by a known date at the other end, but it might introduce controversial matter if we attempted to assign to them their exact relative duration. Probably they were, roughly:—Babylon about 90 years; Medo‐Persia about 200 years; Greece about 304 years. We believe these to be fairly proportionate,(84) but whether they are or not, their total amount must have been 594 years, because the undisputed date of the battle of ACTIUM by which Augustus became the head of the Roman Empire, was September B.C. 31. From this date Jerusalem passed permanently under the power of Rome until the Mahommedan conquest in A.D. 636‐7. We have, therefore, _three fixed dates_, and these decide for us the _duration_ of the intervening periods; dividing them into the two great Eclipse Cycles of 594 years and 666 years! _Jerusalem under the Gentiles._ Babylon (the 1st Kingdom) commenced B.C. 625. Battle of Actium, ending the possession of the 3rd Kingdom, B.C. 31. _Duration_ of the three Kingdoms, Babylon, Medo‐Persia, and Greece, together (1st Eclipse Cycle), 594 years. Rome (the 4th Kingdom) became the possessor of Jerusalem, B.C. 31. Mahommedan conquest of Jerusalem, ending the possession of Rome, A.D. 636. _Duration_ of Rome’s possession of Jerusalem (2nd Eclipse Cycle), 666(85) years. FIRST HALF OF “THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES”, 1260 years. Date of Mahommedan conquest of Jerusalem, A.D. 636‐7. SECOND HALF OF “THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES” and _Duration_ of Mahommedan possession of Jerusalem, A.D. 1260, and 1260 years. End and “fulness” of “the times of the Gentiles”, A.D. 1896‐7, and 2520 years. From this it appears that 1896‐7 A.D. would mark the fulfilment, and complete the duration, of “times of the Gentiles.” The above reckoning has the following advantages over all previous historicist interpretations:— 1. _Controverted_ dates are excluded. 2. The _whole_ period of 2520 years is dealt with, instead of only the latter half (1260), as is usually the case. 3. It confines these “times” to the one place where the Lord Himself put them, _viz._, “JERUSALEM.” He said, “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” These “times,” therefore, are confined to Jerusalem. This “treading down” is confined to Jerusalem. It is not the city of Rome that is to be trodden down for 1260 years. Why, then, should these “times” be separated from what is characteristic of their _duration_, and applied to Rome, papal or imperial? Why should historicists search for some act of emperors or popes in the early part of the seventh century in order to add it to 1260, so as to find some terminal date in or near our own times!(86)