67. Here Virgil, by a Poetic licence, melts the Iron age and the Cumæan age into one. This was natural for him to do, as a Roman; for no doubt he was aware that the ascendancy of the Roman Power had been predicted in ancient prophecy under the figure of Iron Rule: and he might hope that the Fifth Monarchy would spring from the same source.

68. This learned and illustrious poet, who had no doubt, borrowed his “priscæ vestigia fraudis”^[69] from the 2d Chapter of Genesis, might have also anticipated the gross wickedness which should continue to prevail, notwithstanding the advent of the Divine Instructor, until death should put an end to mortal strife, and the spirits of the just be made perfect. It is lamentable in the present Age of Respectability, to behold so many of these vestigia as the newspapers exhibit, those daily records of crime and debauchery, murder and suicide; to read the reports of the police, inquest, and law courts, one would scarcely believe that he lived in a Christian country, but rather that he dwelt in the midst of Pagan Rome. It is our deliberate opinion that the publication of such reports is injurious to the morals of the country, and that an immediate stop should be put to it by legislative enactment. The reading of newspapers is now so universal, and the taste for The Horrible so rabid, especially among the lower orders, that we are fully persuaded that the perusal of the reports of trial for crime, under the temptation of the Devil, and the pressure of similar circumstances, too frequently leads to its commission. It would serve all the good purposes that can possibly be gained by publicity, merely to record the names and crimes of the offenders, without entering into all the shocking details, so disgusting to the truly humane and Christian portion of the community.

69. “Traces of Man’s early sin.”

70. The works of these authors to which we shall chiefly refer, are, the “Jewish Antiquities” of Josephus, the treatise “To Autolycus” of Theophilus, the remains of the “Chronicon” of Africanus, the mutilated “Chronicon” of Eusebius, and the “Chronicon Paschale.”

71. See Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. pp. 13, 14; note a.

72. Lib. iii. ad Antolycum, p. 262, Oxon. 1684.

73. See Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ, vol. ii. pp. 126, 129.

74. Ibid, pp. 242, 243, 248, 250.

75. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. p. 26.

76. See Hudson’s Josephus, pp. 26, 27.

77. Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, p. 262.

78. Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ, vol. ii. p. 130.

79. On this point, see the “Cours Complet de Theologie,” tom. iii. p. 1538; and “Chronicon Paschale,” p. 340, Venet. 1729.

80. Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ, vol. ii. p. 131.

81. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. p. 111.

82. Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, p. 262.

83. Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, p. 265.

84. Routh’s Reliq. Sacr. vol. ii. p. 155.

85. Ibid, p. 136.

86. Μετὰ τοῦ ἀληθοὺς δια τοῦ Μωσέως πνεύματος διδαχθέντες, ἐκ τε τῶν λοιπῶν Ἑβραϊκῶν ἱστοριῶν, ἀριθμὸν ἐτῶν πεντάκις χιλίων πεντακοσίων ἐις τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τοῦ Σωτηρίου Λόγου τὴν ἐπὶ τῆς μοναρχίας των Καισάρων κηρυσσομένην παραδεδώκασιν. Routh’s Reliq. Sacr. vol. ii. p. 132.

87. The 20 years taken from the former period, and the 20 years of the servitude omitted, being both added to the short period, will make it exactly 72 years.

88. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. p. 979.

89. Ibid, p. 322.

90. Russell’s “Connection,” vol. i. p. 147.

91. Sulpicius Severus in Hist. Sacr. i. 44, 3; cited by Clinton.

92. See Russell’s “Connection,” p. 128; where he gives a very erroneous view of the critarchate of Samuel and the reign of Saul. He is also mistaken as to the critarchate of Samson.

93. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. ii. p. 470.

94. Hudson’s Josephus, p. 371.

95. Ibid, p. 422.

96. Ibid, p. 506.

97. Hudson’s Josephus, p. 528.

98. Probably intended for Shamgar; see Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, p. 266.

99. Clinton’s “Fasti Hellenici,” vol. i. p. 306, note d.

100. Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, p. 266.

101. Routh’s Reliq. Sacr. vol. ii. pp. 160, 161.

102. Clinton’s “Fasti Hellenici,” vol. i. p. 308, note q.

103. Routh’s Reliq. Sacr. vol. ii. pp. 167, 169.

104. Russell’s “Connection,” pp. 130, 131; and Clinton’s “Fasti Hellenici,” vol. i. pp. 303—310.

105. See the vol. last cited, p. 310, note x.

106. We have observed the correct number in the series of the Judges prefixed to the Armenian copy of the Chronicon of Eusebius.

107. Clinton’s Fast. Helle. p. 310, note z.

108. Ibid, p. 304.

109. Ibid, p. 305.

110. Ibid, p. 305, note z.

111. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. p. 528.

112. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. p. 518.

113. Ibid, p. 516.

114. On this point, see Clinton’s “Fasti Hellenici,” vol. i. p. 316; where the author makes a wrong citation from the Septuagint, viz., 4 Reg. xiii. 10.

115. Euseb. Chron. Canon. Book I. 5, 2, ex Haicano Codice, Mediolan. 1818.

116. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. ii. p. 387.

117. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. ii. p. 452.

118. Ibid, p. 400.

119. Lib. III. ad Autolycum, p. 281.

120. Lib. III. ad Autolycum, p. 269.

121. Routh’s Rel. Sac. vol. ii. p. 174.

122. Ven. 1483.

123. Mediolan. et Ven., 1818.

124. Ven. 1729.

125. See Hales’s “Analysis,” vol. i. pp. 276–278.

126. 2 Kings xxv. 4.

127. Luke iii. 1, 23.

128. Hudson’s Josephus, vol. i. pp. 547–979.

129. See Dr. Hales’s “Analysis,” vol. ii. p. 652.

130. Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, pp. 268–277.

131. Luke iii. 1, 23; and p. 89, Part I.

132. Routh’s Rel. Sac. pp. 181, 186, 187.

133. Lib. iii. ad Autolycum, pp. 276–281.

134. Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ, vol. ii. pp. 129–193.

135. See the Hieronymian version of his “Chronicon,” Ven. 1483.

136. See “Chronicon Paschale,” p. 179, Ven. 1729.