Commentary on Genesis and Exodus, Book 2 · Chapter 12 · Questions 4
Of the time of the dwelling of the Israelites in the land of Egypt.
QUEST. LV. Whether the Israelites dwelt in Egypt more than 430. yeeres.
Vers. 40. SO the dwelling of the children of Israel while they dwelt in Egypt was foure hundred and thirty yeeres. First it will bee questioned whether the Israelites dwelled no longer in Egypt than foure hundred and thirty yeeres, seeing the Lord said unto Abraham, Thy seede shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs foure hundred yeeres and shall serve them, Gen. 15.13. For if the Israelites were in servitude foure hundred yeeres, which time of their servitude began not untill after Iosephs death, who lived after the comming of Israel into Egypt 71. yeeres, being then 39. yeeres old, and he lived in all an hundred and ten yeeres, then the whole summe will make 471. But this doubt is easily removed: for that prophesie delivered unto Abraham concerning the hard usage of his seed, consisting of three branches, shall bee a stranger in a land, and shall serve there, and be evill entreated, must be understood, conjunctè, not disjunctè, joyntly together, and not sunderly: that they should not all that time be in servitude, but partly all that while sojourne, and partly be in servitude: Pererius. And so Augustine giveth the solution of this place: Non itaque, quod ajit, in servitutem redigent eos, &c. ad quadringentos annos referendum est, &c. In that it is said, they shall hold them in servitude, it must not bee referred to the foure hundred yeeres: as though they kept them in servitude so many yeeres, but the foure hundred yeeres must bee referred to that which is said, thy seede shall be a stranger in a land not theirs. August. quaest. 47. in Exod.
QUEST. LVI. That the Israelites dwelt not 430. yeeres in Egypt only.
SEcondly, it is not to be supposed that the Israelites dwelt in Egypt all this space of 430. yeeres, which is the opinion of Genebrard, who thinketh that this terme taketh beginning from the comming of Iacob into Egypt, and expireth with the time of their deliverance and departure thence; his reasons are these: 1. Because in this place it is so affirmed that the Israelites dwelt so long in Egypt. 2. As also, that it is not like that in the space of 215. yeeres, which is the time according to the common opinion of their abode in Egypt, of seventy persons they could increase into so great a multitude.
Contra. 1. In this place a figurative speech must needes be admitted: for wee must understand not only the time of Israels sojourning in Egypt, but of their fathers also in the land of Canaan, as Augustine saith these words must be expounded: Manifestum est computandum esse tempus Patriarcharum Abrah…, &c. It is manifest that the time of the Patriarks, Abraham, Izhak, Iakob, must bee accounted when they began to sojourne in the land of Canaan: quaest. 47. in Exod. But of this more afterward. 2. Neither is it impossible or improbable, even without a miracle, for so many thousands in the space of 215. yeeres, to bee multiplied as is shewed before at large quest. 5. in chap. 1. And Augustine giveth two reasons thereof: Si f…cunditas hominis consideretur, adjuvante illo, qui illos valde voluit multiplicari, reperietur non esse mirum: The fecundity of men considered, God also helping, who would have them exceedingly to increase, it will bee found not to be strange.
Now that the Israelites could not continue 430. yeeres in Egypt, these two arguments doe evidently convince. 1. Whereas Caath was one of those which came with Iacob into Egypt, who lived 133. yeeres, and his sonne Amram 137. yeeres, and Moses his sonne was 80. yeere old at the departure of Israel out of Egypt; all these yeeres put together make but 350. from which summe must bee deducted, the yeeres wherein they lived together. Genebrard answeres, that their yeeres are only reckoned after they begat children: and that some may be omitted that came betweene, as S. Matthew leaveth out in his genealogy three Kings, Ahaziah, Ioas, and Amasiah. This answer of Genebrard may easily be taken away; for neither is it the use of Scripture, when it setteth downe the yeeres of a mans life, to name onelyonly the yeeres when he begate children; and seeing in that line from Levi to Moses no other persons, are elsewhere named that came betweene beside Caath and Amram, it is a conjecture without ground to imagine any other. But the omission of these three in S. Matthewes genealogy, is evident, because wee finde them elsewhere in the stories of the Kings to be set downe: Perer.
2. S. Paul beginneth these 430. yeeres from the promise and covenant that was made to Abraham, Galath. 3.17. Therefore Israel stayed not all those yeeres in Egypt. Genebrard here answereth, that where the Apostle saith, the law which was 430. yeeres after, this word after, is not referred to the covenant, but to the law that came 430. yeeres after, that is, from the departure of the Israelites.
Contra. But this is a manifest wresting of the Apostles words, who of purpose maketh a comparison betweene the law and the covenant of grace, shewing that salvation dependeth not of the law, but of the grace and promise of God, which came 430. yeeres before. And whereas the Apostles words, in that order which hee set them downe are these: This I say that the covenant foreign, confirmed afore of God, the Law made after foure hundred and thirty yeeres could not disanull: what other sense can be made of these words, but that the law was given so many yeeres after the promise? for after must of necessity have relation to that which is said to have beene before, which was not the departure of the Israelites, not here so much as mentioned, but the covenant said to be before ratified and confirmed of God. Pererius.
QUEST. LVII. The Israelites dwelt in Egypt 215. yeeres only.
FUrther, that the Israelites neither stayed in Egypt under 200. yeeres, as Chrysostome thinketh, nor yet 210. only, as the Hebrewes, to whom Lyranus and Cajetanus give consent, nor yet 230. yeeres, as Calvin, but 215. yeeres only, it may be thus made to appeare:
First from the first promise made to Abraham, unto the going of Israel out of Egypt, are 430. yeeres, according to the Apostles account: of this summe there were 215. yeeres gone, before Iacob descended into Egypt: Abraham at 75. received the promise, 25. yeeres after; when Abraham was 100. yeere old, was Isaack borne; he at 60. begate Iacob: Iacob at 130. went downe into Egypt; these yeeres put together, 25.60.130. make in all 215. yeeres: there remaineth then the other halfe of the summe, 215. yeeres more for the sojourning of Israel in Egypt: Thus Augustine reckoneth, approving Eusebius account, quaest. 47. in Exod.
Secondly, whereas the yeeres of Coath, Amram and Moses, when Israel came out of Egypt, doe make, as is before shewed, all together 350. yeeres: but from this summe must be subtracted the yeeres wherein they lived together, as from Coaths age of 133. yeeres, who at 65. yeeres begate Amram, as Epiphanius thinketh, the residue, wherein he lived together with Amram, that is, 68. yeeres, must bee deducted: and from Amrams age of 137. who at 70. yeeres begat Moses (as Epiphanius) the residue must likewise bee defaulked, which are 67. yeeres: adde unto these yeeres 65. of Coath, and 70. yeeres of Amram, 80. yeeres of Moses life, and wee shall have the said summe of 215. yeeres, all the time of the sojourning of Israel in Egypt.
QUEST. LVIII. That the Israelites were not in bondage and servitude in Egypt all the foresaid terme of 215. yeeres.
THis being then made plaine, that the Israelites after Iacobs comming downe thither, continued in Egypt 215. yeeres, yet were they not so long in servitude and bondage. 1. Augustine thinketh that they served in Egypt 144. or 145. yeeres, for from the whole summe of 215. yeeres hee onelyonly deducteth 71. yeeres of Iosephs life, after Israel came into Egypt, after whose death hee thinketh their bondage immediately began. But that cannot bee, for not onelyonly Ioseph, but all his brethren also were first dead, Exod. 1.6. of the which Levi being about foure yeere elder than Ioseph, who died at 110. yeere, and Levi at 137. survived Ioseph 23. yeeres: all which time the Israelites were not oppressed with servitude. 2. Rupertus thinketh that the Israelites served 144. yeeres after the death of Ioseph, untill the going forth of the Israelites, so recompensing tenfold the 14. yeeres of Iosephs servitude in Egypt, who was 16. yeere old when hee was sold into Egypt by his brethren, and there served till he was 30. yeere old. But Rupertus is in two things deceived, for Ioseph was not sixteene, as the vulgar Latine corruptly readeth, but 17. yeere old when he was sold into Egypt, Gen. 37.2. so that hee served but 13. yeeres in Egypt, neither was the time of their servitude so long, as is shewed before. 3. Some thinke that after Levi his death, who lived 23. yeere after Ioseph, their affliction began, which continued 121. yeeres. Neither can this be so, for not onelyonly Levi and the rest of Iosephs brethren, but all that generation also died before their servitude and affliction entred, of which generation Pharez being one, supposed to bee one yeere old, when hee went downe with Iacob into Egypt, and to have lived 130. yeeres according to the usuall age then, it will bee found that their affliction indured not an hundred yeeres, if the age of Pharez being supposed to be 130. be deducted from the summe of 215. the full time of the Israelites sojourning in Egypt. See before quest. 12. in chap. 1. Exod.
QUEST. LIX. Moses understandeth all the time of the sojourning of Israel and of their fathers in Egypt and in Canaan.
NOw then for the right understanding of these words of Moses. 1. A double figure called Synecdoche is to be admitted, both in the persons, and in the place, a part being taken for the whole: for not only the sojourning of the Israelites, but of their fathers also, Abraham, Isaack and Iacob must bee understood, and not only the sojourning in Egypt, but in Canaan also and other places: Thus the Septuagint very well interprete this place: The dwelling, which the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, both they and their fathers, was 430. yeeres: so also Augustine expoundeth it, quaest. 47. in Exod. and Iosephus lib. 2. de Antiquit. Iudaic. cap. 6. 2. Eugubinus doth disdainfully reject this opinion, with this reason, that if it be taken for the time of their sojourning, not onelyonly in Egypt, but elsewhere, there will be found to be many more yeeres. Contra. 1. It shall even now appeare that in a precise and strict account, there are just so many yeeres, from the first promise made unto Abraham, when hee came out of Chaldea into Canaan, unto the returne of Israel out of Egypt. 2. This figure Synecdoche, to name part for the whole, is not unusuall in Scripture, as Gen. 35.26. all the sonnes of Iacob, Benjamin being also reckoned among them, are said to have beene borne in Padan Aram, because most of them were there borne. Iunius.
QUEST. LX. Why the dwelling only of Israel in Egypt is named, the rest being also understood.
THe reasons why their sojourning and dwelling in Egypt is only mentioned, the other being also understood, are these: 1. Lyranu… giveth this reason, because their dwelling in Egypt was the last, and things doe commonly take their denomination from the end. 2. But these reasons rather may be yeelded, first because their sojourning did not only end in Egypt, but there it began, for thither Abraham at his first comming into Canaan was constrained to flee in the time of famine, Gen. 12.2. there was the longest time of their sojourning, the other Patriarkes at divers times sojourned in Canaan 295. yeeres, and Iacob in Mesopotamia 20. yeeres, but in Egypt Israel continued 215. yeeres. 3. Their habitation in Egypt was more famous than any of the rest, both for the honorable advancement of Ioseph in Egypt, the wonderfull multiplying and increase of the Israelites, and the strange signes and wonders there wrought for their deliverance. Perer.
Some question also there is, when this computation of 430. yeeres should begin. 1. Epiphanius would have them begin, at such time as the Lord told Abraham what should befall his seed, and how hardly they should bee intreated: so also Ferus, Pellican. But that cannot be, for both in that place the Lord nameth another summe of 400 yeeres. And S. Paul counteth this space of 430. yeeres from the promise made to Abraham, unto the giving of the Law.
QUEST. LXI. Where the 430. yeeres must take beginning.
2. ZEiglerus in his Commentaries beginneth this terme of 430. yeeres from the tenth yeare after Abrahams comming into Canaan, when he saith the Lord made a covenant with him. But this computation cannot stand. 1. We doe not find that Abraham received any promise about that time, but then, when he had beene ten yeeres in Canaan, Sarah gave unto him his maid Agar, Gen. 16.2. 2. Also by this account wee shall want ten yeeres of the whole summe of 430. from Abrahams 75. when hee first came into Canaan, unto the 80. yeere of Moses when the Israelites went out, are just 430. yeeres, as is shewed before: if then this terme should begin ten yeeres after, in the 85. yeere of Abraham, wee shall want ten yeeres of 430.
3. Beside, Zeiglerus to make this computation good, committeth apparent errors in Chronology, as that Iacob went downe into Egypt 207. yeeres after the covenant, which was 215. yeeres, and if it began 10. yeeres after, as he reckoneth, then it could be but 205. yeeres; further he saith, that Ioseph died 285. yeeres after the covenant, which cannot bee after his owne account, for Ioseph lived 71. yeeres after Iacobs descending into Egypt, being then 39. yeeres old, which two summes of 71.39. make up the whole age of Ioseph an 110. if then there were but 207. yeeres gone after the covenant made at Iacobs comming into Egypt, then at Iosephs death 71. yeeres after, there were but 278. yeares runne, not 285. as he collecteth; here then he addeth 7. yeeres too much to make his account agree. 3. Procopius, as Pererius collecteth, thinketh that the 430. yeeres should begin at the birth of Isaack. But that cannot bee, for from thence the other summe of 400. yeeres taketh beginning.
4. Genebrard reckoneth them from the time of Iacobs going downe into Egypt, whose opinion is refuted before, quest. 55.
5. Iunius and Borrhaius account these 430. yeeres from the departure of Abraham out of Vr of the Chaldes, from whence to the birth of Isaack were thirty yeeres, and Iunius supposed that hee stayed 5. yeeres in Haran. Contra. 1. It is not like that Abraham being called of God to goe out of his country, would stay 5. yeeres in Haran, but that he made all haste to obey the calling of God. 2. If the account of 430. yeeres should begin 30. yeeres before Isaacks birth, we shall have 435. yeeres in all; for from the 75. yeere of Abraham, which was but 25. yeeres before the birth of Isaack, untill the time of Israels departure out of Egypt, are just 430. yeeres, as is shewed before, quest. 56.
6. Wherefore the best computation of all is to begin the 430. yeere from the 75. yeere of Abrahams age when hee came into the land of Canaan: both because, while hee remained with his father and kindred in Haran, he could not be said to sojourne, or be a stranger: and for that, if we begin the account before the 75. yeere of Abrahams age, there will arise more than 430. yeeres. Thus Iosephus reckoneth these 430. yeeres, Postquam Abraham in Canaan venit: After Abraham came into the land of Canaan: so also Eusebius: A septuagesimo quinto anno Abrahae us que ad egressum Hebraeorum ex Aegypt… supputan…ur anni quadringenti triginta: From the seventy five yeere of Abraham, unto the going of the Hebrewes out of Egypt, are counted foure hundred thirty yeeres; and this computation Augustine followeth, quaest. 47. in Exod.
QUEST. LXII. When the terme of 430 yeeres ended.
AS we have seene where this terme of 430. yeeres must take beginning, so it is to be considered, when they were to determine and end. 1. Epiphanius hath here a singular conceit by himselfe, who extendeth these 430. yeeres unto the time of the Israelites entring into the land of Canaan, as Pererius thus collecteth. Epiphanius terminat in eo tempore, quo terram promissionis intrarant: Epiphanius doth determine them at that time, when they entred into the land of promise. But this cannot be: for the Israelites continued 40. yeeres in the desert, before they were admitted to the possession of Canaan: (Epiphanius saith they were in the desert 50. yeeres, but he is therin also deceived) if this terme of 40. yeeres be comprehended in the 430. yeeres: it will follow that from Iacobs comming downe into Egypt, untill the Israelites returne from thence, are not above 175. yeeres, which were indeed 215. yeeres, as is shewed before, quest. 56. 2. Therefore these 430. yeeres doe determine and expire, at the very time of the Israelites departure out of Egypt, as Moses here saith: When the 430. yeeres were expired, even the selfe same day departed all the hostes of the Lord out of the land of Egypt. And S. Paul also extendeth these yeeres but unto the giving of the Law in mount Sinai, Gal. 3.17. Thus Eusebius, and Augustine following him, quaest. 47. in Exod. define these yeeres; so also Iun. Simler. Osiander, Pererius, Ferus, with others.
QUEST. LXIII. How the terme of 400. yeeres foretold to Abraham and Moses summe of 430. yeeres, doe agree together.
NOw whereas the Lord telleth Abraham that his seed should be a stranger in a land not theirs, and be evill entreated 400. yeeres, Gen. 15.13. and the same is repeated by S. Stephen, Acts 7.6. that summe of yeeres very well agreeth with this number of 430. for this summe beginneth at Abrahams first comming into Canaan when he was 75. yeeres old, 25. yeeres before the birth of Isaack: for there the Lord speaketh of the sojourning and hard usage of his seede: and even then the first manifest affliction of Abrahams seede in Isaack began by Ismael of Agar the Egyptian. 2. But from Isaacks birth unto the going downe of Iacob into Egypt are in precise account 220. yeeres, and so the whole time is 405. yeeres from Isaacks birth unto the going out of Israel from Egypt: for if from Abrahams 75. yeere: there are 430. yeeres from Abrahams 100. yeere when Isaack was borne, are 405. yeeres: to make the summe even, the od 5. yeeres are omitted: which thing is not unusuall in Scripture: as in one place David is said to have reigned in Hebron 7. yeeres, and 6. moneths, 2. Sam 5.5. in another place, the yeeres of his reigne in Hebron, are counted 7. yeere, even, and in Jerusalem 33. yeeres▪ 40. yeere in all, 1. King. 2.11. the odde moneths are omitted. Augustine also hereof thus writeth: Non mirum si qua…ringentos & quinque annos sumae solidae quadringen…es voluit appellare scriptura, &c. No marvell if the Scripture call 405. yeeres in one round summe 400. yeere which useth so to set downe the times, that what is over or under the perf…ct number is not counted, quaest. 47. in Exod. Hence then both Lyranus and Cajetane are found to bee in an error, who therein following some Hebrewes, doe account but 210. yeeres for the time of the Israelites abode in Egypt, reckoning but 400. yeeres strictly from Isaacks birth unto the departure of Israel out of Egypt. 3. But Procopius would thus reconcile these two summes, he would have both the 400. yeeres and the 430. begin together, and that the Lord saith not, that after 400. yeeres expired, the Israelites should returne, but simply after 400. yeeres, so that the other 30. yeeres also may bee included. M. Calvin also somewhat to the same effect saith, Restabant plures anni quàm quadringenti, nempe viginti, vel circiter: There remained more yeeres than foure hundred, as twenty or thereabout: but because the Lord purposed onelyonly to prepare them unto patience, he defineth not a certaine number of yeeres. But herein is their error, they would extend these 400. yeeres beyond the time of their deliverance out of Egypt: whereas the Lord setting the end of this time saith: The nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterward shall they come … with great substance, Gen. 15.14. then immediately after the expiration of these 400. yeeres, the Israelites must come forth of the land of their bondage with great substance.
QUEST. LXIV. When the 400. yeeres prefixed to Abraham must take their beginning.
NOw concerning the beginning of these 430. yeeres, here commeth to be examined and discussed, a singular and private opinion of Zeiglerus, who beginneth the account of these 430. yeeres, from the 10. yeere of Abrahams sojourning in Canaan, 15. yeeres before the birth of Isaac, and he endeth them in the tenth yeere of Moses exile in the land of Midian, where he continued 40. yeeres, when hee saith the captivity of Israel should have ceased: but because Moses would have prevented the time, and delivered Israel ten yeeres before, when he slew the Egyptian, the Lord did punish his presumption with 40. yeeres exile, and deferred the deliverance of Israel 30. yeeres longer, both to fulfill the 40. yeeres of his penance, and because the Lord purposed to appoint no other Captaine of his people, but Moses. Thus we reade that the Lord hath observed this proportion and number of forty at other times, also for the time of penance, as the Israelites wandred 40. yeeres in the wildernesse: it rained 40. dayes upon the old world: 40. dayes are set for the repentance of Niniveh: sic Zeigler.
Contra. 1. This terme of 400. yeeres limited for the sojourning and servitude of Abrahams seede, cannot begin before Abraham had seede, and therefore not 15. yeeres before the birth of Isaac. 2. Gods purpose and determination altereth not, mans infirmity cannot make the counsell of God of none effect: therefore seeing the Lord, who foreseeth all things, did set unto Abraham this terme of 400. yeeres, …ee no doubt most faithfully kept his promise, and as he had decreed, so after 400. yeeres expired he delivered his seede from their oppressors. 3. Moses act in killing the Egyptian was an act of faith, not of presumption: as both S. Stephen witnesseth, Acts 7.25. Hee supposed … brethren would have understood, that God by his hand should give them deliverance: as also the Apostle to the Heb. 11.25. By faith Moses when hee was come to age refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter, and chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God: and againe vers. 27. By faith he forsooke Egypt, &c. If Moses then of faith shewed himselfe to be the deliverer of his people, as when he killed the Egyptian, and cares not for the favour and honour of Pharaohs court, then was it not a presumptuous act, for the which he should be punished. 4. And how standeth it with Gods justice to punish all the people of Israel with the captivity of 30. yeeres longer for the sinne and presumption of one man, if Moses had offended and trespassed therein? 5. Neither is that observation of forty perpetuall: neither David for his sinne, nor Peter for his deniall of Christ, nor the incestuous young man among the Corinthians were injoyned any such time of penance: and Nebuchadnezzars time of repentance farre exceeded this proportion which continued seven yeeres, Dan. 4.20. for true repentance is not measured by the number of dayes, but by the weight of the contrition and sorrow of heart: neither is it found in Scripture, that any one man had 40. dayes penance imposed upon him. There was another reason of the 40. yeeres wandring of Israel in the desert: for according to the time wherein the spies searched the land, which was 40. dayes, they have a yeere set for a day for the punishment of the sinne of the spies in raising a slander upon that good land (all but Caleb and Iosuah) and of the people in giving no credit unto them: see Numb. 14.34.
QUEST. LXV. The time of the Hebrewes departure out of Egypt compared with the Chronology of the Heathen.
NOw in the last place it shall bee declared how this time of the departing of Israel agreeth with the …orren computations, according to the Chronology of the Heathen. 1. They therefore observe five notable periods of times, from whence they use to make supputation of their yeeres: from the monarchy of Ninus and Semiramis in Abrahams time: from the floud of Ogyges, and from Inachus, and Ph…r…neus, about the time of the Patriarke Iacob: from the battell of Troy, which fell out in Sampsons dayes, or under Hel… the high Priest: from the beginning of the Olympiades which began in the 8. yeere of the reigne of Ahaz: from the building of Rome in the 1. yeere of the seventh Olympiade, which concurreth with the 16. yeere of the reigne of Hesekiah.
2. According then to these divers kindes of computations, there are also divers opinions concerning the time of Israels departure out of Egypt. Apion the Gramarian a professed adversary to the Jewes, against whom Iosephus wrote two bookes, will have Moses to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, in the time of the seventh Olympiade when the City Carthage was built by the Tyrians in Africa: thus Iosephus reporteth the opinion of Apion in his 2. booke. But this to bee apparantly false Iosephus sheweth, proving that the Temple of Salomon was built 143. yeeres before Carthage, and the Israelites came out of Egypt 480. yeeres before that, 1. King. 6.1. so that their leaving of Egypt was above 600. yeeres before the building of Carthage.
3. As Apion commeth farre short in his computation, so Porphyrius goeth as much beyond: who in the fourth booke of those which hee wrote against the Christians, will have Moses to be before the times of Semiramis, which is a grosse error: for it is without all question, that Abraham was borne under the monarchy of Ninus ▪ and from Abrahams birth untill the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt are 505. yeeres, whereof an 100. are counted from Abrahams birth to Isaacs: and 405. from thence unto Israels redemption, as hath beene shewed.
4. Lactantius lib. 4. cap. 5. thinketh that Moses was 900. yeeres before the battell of Troy: whereas it will be found, that he was only 356. yeeres or thereabout elder than those times.
5. Manethon an ancient Writer of the Egyptian affaires maketh Moses more ancient by 393. yeeres▪ than when Danaus went to Argos, that is, about a thousand yeeres before the battell of Troy. But that cannot bee, seeing the Trojan warre is held to have beene in the time of Sampson or Hel…, not above 356. yeeres after the returne of the Hebrewes out of Egypt.
6. Some Christian Writers thinke that the Hebrewes were delivered out of the Egyptian Captivity in the time of Ogyges floud, as Iustinus Martyr, Clemens Alexandrinus, 1. lib. Stromatum Iulian Africanus. But that is not like, for the same Iulian African. by the testimony of divers Heathen Writers sheweth that Ogyges floud was 1020. yeeres before the beginning of the Olympiades. But from the departure of Israel out of Egypt, untill the Olympiades began, which was in the 8. yeere of the reigne of Ahaz, are counted but 760. yeere, or thereabout: so that Moses should bee above two hundred and fifty yeeres after Ogyges floud.
7. This is then the right computation, compared with the Chronology of the Heathen, that the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was 356. yeere before the Trojan battell: and 764. yeeres before the Olympiades: 788. yeeres before the building of Rome: 910. yeeres before the Captivity of Babylon: 980. yeeres before the reigne of Cyrus: 1200. yeeres before Alexander the Great: 1496. yeeres before Herod, under whose reigne Christ was borne. And according to the sacred Chronologie, this redemption of Israel from the Egyptian bondage was 2453. yeeres after the creation of the world: 797. yeeres after Noahs floud: 505. yeeres after the death of the Patriarke: Ioseph 480. yeeres before the building of Salomons Temple; and 1536. yeeres before the birth of our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus. Ex Perer.