# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1856_S113
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections, etc. 113

with these. From the first king Menes to king Ramesses the Great of the 18th Dynasty, born 1693 B.C., only 50 kings reigned in succession, over a span of 1076 years. Menes, the founder of the Egyptian monarchy, with whom Egyptian history begins, therefore reigned around the year 2782 B.C. of the dog-star period, which finds its confirmation in the Vetus Chronicon. This datum is fixed, and indeed mathematically exactly, by the constellation of the planets at the time of Menes, which has come down to us in several places. With this, then, as the author says, "the comic tragedy of the Manethonian dynasties, which for 200 years has occupied so many pens, is at an end." The end of the Flood is placed by the Egyptians 664 years and 217 days before this epoch, that is, on December 10, 3446 B.C. The Egyptians set the year of the Creation in the year 5800 B.C., because at that time Sirius rose together with the sun. Hence the 30,000 years from the Creation to the Flood in Manetho and in the Vetus Chronicon must be explained as the same number of lunar months, which presents no difficulty, since the Egyptian word Abot (year) means both year and month, and the Egyptians, in order to make their reckoning come out, used the word Abot in different senses. It is also of interest to note that the Egyptians derive their astronomy from the Chaldeans, from whom they received a very ancient constellation-observation, which yields, for the vernal equinox day, May 29 (10), 5871 B.C., as the day of the Egyptians' creation.

We now report in detail the corrections to Hebrew history and chronology. According to the testimony of the evangelist Luke, Christ was baptized at almost 30 years of age, in the 15th year of Tiberius. His baptism day was, according to Christian traditions in Epiphanius and others, November 8, and the 15th year of Tiberius began in Palestine on the 1st of Tishri, 28 A.D. According to gnostic monuments of this period, and according to the testimony of Clement and the most learned church fathers, the Lord was born on the Romans' winter-solstice day, December 25 (22), 9 days before the beginning of the Dionysian era (which is entirely correct), which began, according to Dionysius's Easter canon, with the first of January of the astronomers' year zero, in the year 5869 of the world. This is confirmed by the magi who arrived, because the same conjunction that had preceded the birth of Moses by 4 years now occurred again 4 years before Christ's appearance, and on the basis of it they expected the birth of the Messiah. The Roman censuses (Luke 2) were held every 7 years, namely in 45 B.C., 9 B.C., and 6 A.D., and so on. From this it may incidentally be seen that the 19th century began on January 1, 1800 (not 1801). Our chronology remained correct up to Bede the Venerable, but after him one erroneously reckoned one year too few. Christ's public ministry lasted, according to holy Scripture, over 3 years. The crucifixion took place in the year 33 A.D., on the day before the feast of Easter, on the 14th of Nisan (March 19 Julian),