where, so far as we are able to discover, in any New Testament writer, about an earthly inheritance. Now is it at all likely, if, in fact, the reappearance of the Jews in Palestine, and their national settlement in their former earthly inheritance, is a necessary harbinger of their recovery to the covenant of redemption, that no mention would be made of such an event by any one of the New Testament prophets? And our readers are to remember that there is no falling back to Old Testament predictions for the proof of this hypothesis, for the testimony which relates to their civil and social conditions has been verified already in their recovery from Babylon, while those predictions that infolded spiritual privileges belong equally to Gentiles and Jews. And there can be no mistaking their theological signification, as the matter of these announcements is a subject of daily experience by every true believer. What he feels of the renewing and exalting power of the Gospel, is a true exponent of that restoration which awaits the descendants of Abraham. The riches of that hope and consolation which we derive from the stock of the good "olive-tree," Israel, when they shall turn unto the Lord, shall receive as a common "inheritance with the saints in light."

New-York, 1856.

ART. VI-TABLE OF BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY.

N. B.-The years of the different eras begin at narrow points of the calendar year, according to the time of the event, or epoch, which they were designed to commemorate; and in all instances they are antedated to that fixed season; accordingly, fractions of years are always included in the date immediately following them, so as to preserve an accurate series. These principles of computation are positively known to have obtained in many ancient eras, and their general application is admitted by various chronologers, although they have failed to carry them out consistently. Each year, in the following table, is accordingly divided, for the sake of accuracy and convenience, into quarters, beginning respectively with the first days of January, Nisan, (about April), July, and Tisri, (about October), the ordinal number, in the appropriate era, being set in the first quarter, and continued by two points, (. .), in the other quarters of the same year. Every event is placed opposite the quarter, during which it actually occurred, its nominal date being in the current year of the era, according to which it is dated; when the season of the year is doubtful, a brace is set to those quarters, in the course of which it took place. The years of each era are separated by a dash drawn entirely across the column. For the sake of economy of space, those years not specially connected with any event in Scripture chronology, are omitted, their place being supplied by figures, set transversely in the columns, and representing the number of years omitted. The proof texts of each date are inserted in an adjacent column, between parenthesis marks. This mathematical construction of the years, by means of the middle column, tests the chronology at many points.

It should also be observed that Dr. Jarius (Introd., &c.) has shown it to be highly probable that an omission of one consulship has occurred in the Roman annals, and that, consequently, all events between B. C. 45 and A. D. 161 (except those connected with the destruction of Jerusalem) ought to be dated one year earlier, in which case, the years of Daniel's seventy weeks, and of the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus, should likewise bear date one year earlier.