CHAPTER VI.—DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE SEPTUAGINT CHRONOLOGY.

1. Mr. Cuninghame’s application of the lunisolar cycles and septennary periods to the settlement of chronological questions—The Septuagint proved to be the _exact truth_ by a complex harmony of scientific time—His “Synopsis of Chronology” recommended 122

2. Evidence in favour of the Septuagint and Hebrew Chronologies compared and tested by Mr. Cuninghame—His detection of the scheme of fraud invented by the Jewish Rabbis for shortening the chronology of the Scriptures—His exposition of this scheme in _three distinct acts_, and the result of the whole 123

3. Recommendation of Mr. Cuninghame’s “Septuagint and Hebrew Chronologies Tried”—His description and table of the great periods of 1838—His table of both Chronologies—His appeal to the disciples of Usher—His view of their chronological difficulties and paradoxes—His call to them to produce their evidence in favour of their system 126

4. Recommendation of Mr. Cuninghame’s later works—Summary of the remarkable and original subjects of which they treat—His remarks on the Theories of modern Geologists recommended—Their large demands upon time not warranted by the simplicity of the Mosaic narrative—The authority and authenticity of the Inspired Record endangered by their speculations—Another mode of solving geological difficulties recommended—A boon of 1500 years additional granted to Geologists—Recommendation of Mr. Morison’s “Religious History of Man”—Mr. Cuninghame’s discoveries concentrated in his “Chart of Chronology” and “Essay,” and in the Appendixes to the fourth edition of his “Dissertation on the Apocalypse” 128

PART II.