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.

CHAPTER I.—THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.

Primeval prophecy concerning the Messiah—Errors in the
translation of it, in different versions—Correct in the
Septuagint—Tradition of this prophecy in the Ante and Post
Diluvian ages—Its clearer development in the Patriarchal
Age—Dr. Lamb’s explanation of the word _Shiloh_—Prophecy of
Balaam in the Critarchal Age—Predictions of Moses and
Hannah—The glorious revelations of the Monarchal Age—The
testimony of the Psalms to the Messiah—Explanation of the
last words of David from Kennicott—Application of the term
_Sun_ to Jehovah—Testimony of the Prophecies to the
Messiah—Isaiah, the Evangelical Prophet—The predictions at
the close of the Monarchal and the commencement of the
Hierarchal Age—Testimony among the Heathen 135