eras entirely at the mercy of every dreamer, so that chronology
would be of no more value than mere guess work. As the seventy weeks must
terminate in A.D. 34, unless the seventh of Artaxerxes is wrongly fixed, and as
that cannot be changed without some evidence to that effect, we inquire, What
evidence marked that termination? The time when the apostles turned to the
Gentiles harmonizes with that better than any other which has been named. And
the crucifixion, in A.D. 31, in the midst of the last week, is sustained by a mass of
testimony which cannot be easily invalidated." - Advent Herald, March 2, 1850.
"The Saviour attended but four passovers, at the last of which he was
crucified. This could not bring the crucifixion later than A.D. 31, as is recorded by
Aurelius Cassiodorus, a respectable Roman Senator, about A.D. 514: 'In the
consulate of Tiberius Caesar Aug. V. and Aelius Sejanus [U.C. 784, A.D. 31], our
Lord Jesus Christ suffered on the eighth of the Calends of April.' In this year, and
in this day, says Dr. Hales, agree also the Council of Caesarea, A.D. 196, or 198,
the Alexandrian Chronicle, Maximus Monachus, Nicephorus Constantinus,
Cedrenus; and in this year, but on different days, concur Eusebius and
Epiphanius, followed by Kebler, Bucher, Patinus, and Petavius." - Advent Herald,
August 24, 1850.
"There are certain chronological points which have been settled as fixed; and
before the seventy weeks can be made to terminate at a later period, those must
be unsettled, by being shown to have been fixed on wrong principles; and a new
date must be assigned for their commencement based on better principles. Now
that the commencement of the reign of Artaxerxes Longiman
