FULNESS OF THE TIMES: BEING AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE GREEK TEXT OF THE SEVENTY: SHOWING THAT IT RESTS ON THE BASIS OF EXACT SCIENCE, AND COMPREHENDS OF JUBILEES AND ASTRONOMICAL CYCLES, WHICH CONNECT THE ERAS OF HISTORY AND PROPHECY WITH THE REMOTEST ANTEDILUVIAN AGES, AND DEMONSTRATE THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE HEBREW DISPENSATION. PROVING ALSO THAT WE ARE APPROACHING A GREAT CRISIS IN THE SACRED CHRONOLOGY, WHICH INDICATES THE NEARNESS OF THE END. AND CONTAINING A DISSERTATION ON THE YEAR OF OUR LORD'S NATIVITY; WHEREIN THE PERIOD OF THE DEATH OF HEROD IS FIXED BY AN ORIGINAL Lunar Eclipse. WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE SACRED CHRONOLOGY OF MR CLINTON'S FASTI HELLENICI. BY WILLIAM CUNINGHAME, Esq. OF LAINSHAW, IN THE COUNTY OF AYR. Εις οικονομίαν του πληρώματος των καιρών. "In the Dispensation of the Fulness of the Times."-EPHES. i. 10. LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., HATCHARD & SON, SEELY & SONS; GLASGOW, JOHN SMITH & SON. MDCCCXXXVI. PREFACE. IN commencing the Preface, it is necessary for me to state the circumstances which gave rise to this Work. About the end of last summer I was engaged in preparing for the Press a second edition of one of my controversial pieces on the Second Advent of our Lord.* Now I had observed, soon after the publication of my Chronology of Israel, that a period of 36, or 12 X3 Jubilees from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, expired in the year 1834, which had previously, in my Tract "On the Jubilean Chronology of the Seventh Trumpet of the Apocalypse," been laid down as the beginning of the last Septenary of the 71st Jubilee from the Exodus, and of the final compassing of the mystic Jericho. This led me to make some further calculations; and, in the month of August last, I discovered, that from the entrance of the children of Israel, under Joshua, the son of Nun, into Canaan, in B. c. 1599, to the year 1832, when the Egyptian army, under Ibrahim Pacha, expelled the Turks from Palestine, an event which appeared to be the complete fulfilment of the drying up of the mystic Euphrates mentioned in Rev. xvi. 12. to prepare the way for the return of the Jews, precisely 70 Jubilees had elapsed, for B. c. 1599+ A. c. 1832 3430 complete years 49 70 Jubilees. This drying up of the symbolical Euphrates, or Ottoman power, had indeed been accomplishing for many years, as was apparent to all the sounder students of Prophecy; but it appeared to me very wonderful, that its completion should occur exactly 70 Jubilees from the entrance into Canaan, and that it should have been reserved for the = a. = * I request the reader to make himself acquainted with the body of this Work, the Tables, and the Appendix, before he peruses the Preface, which cannot be fully understood if read first. |