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Excerpt from Ezekiel and Daniel: With Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, Designed for Both Pastors and People The date of his several prophecies is mostly given with care and thus placed beyond reasonable doubt. The cap tivity of J ehoiachin (b. C. 600) is his epoch. Prophesying and writing with and for the Jews in captivity, this epoch was for them altogether appropriate, and was doubtless their own in current use. His book opens with another epoch in the words, In the thirtieth year, etc. This has given rise to much speculation. I reject the three theories following, viz.: that this refers to his own age that it dates from the discovery of the book of the law in the reign of Josiah; and that it dates from the last Jubilee. Either of these theories is too capricious to be adopted. I accede to the Opinion that these words allude to the new Chaldean epoch of Nabopolassar, the father of Nebuchadnezzar, which dates from the fall of Nineveh, B. C., 625, and was the great epoch of the profane historians of those and of sub sequent times. As Ezekiel wrote among the Chaldeans, it was pertinent that he should make so much allusion to their great national epoch.' Yet since his prophecies were intended chieflm the use of the Jews, it was fitting that after this brief allusion to the Chaldean' epoch, he should drop it, and in all other cases use only the epoch cf his own people. Such is the fact. Following this Jewish epoch, his prophecies commence with the fifth year (chap. 1: and close (chap. 29: 17) with the twenty-seventh. The last nine chapters date inothe twenty-fifth year. Be tween these extremes are a large number of definite dates, to be noticed in their place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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