# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1856_S114
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

114 Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections, etc.

a Thursday. The resurrection followed, after 3 actual days, on March 22, a Sunday, on the vernal equinox day, the day of the Creation. The destruction of Jerusalem fell in the year 71 A.D., the sabbath year.

The era of the kings in Judah and Israel agrees in the books of Kings and of Chronicles, and neither gaps nor interregna need be assumed, since more exact investigations have shown that several kings reigned jointly with their fathers. Saul ascended the throne in 1070 B.C., Rehoboam in 950, and thus Jewish history again comes into agreement with Persian and Egyptian history. The 15th year of Asa, in which a victory feast over Zerah [Thiraka] was held (2 Chron. 15:10), was 913 B.C. All events from the death of Alexander down to the sons of Herod move down 2 years, because Alexander died 2 years later than had hitherto been believed. This is confirmed by the sabbath years and otherwise.

Regarding the period of the Judges, the apostle Paul says (Acts 13:20) that the Hebrews were governed by their own judges for almost 450 years, which is correct if the reigns of the judges are added together. But the book of Judges adds to this the years in which the Hebrews were subjugated by neighboring peoples, or governed themselves without a judge through their own elders, according to which, from the exodus out of Egypt to the building of the temple in the 4th year of Solomon, about 880 years result. Against this, 1 Kings 6:1 reckons only 480 years for the same period, a copyist's error for 880. For otherwise the book of Judges would stand in contradiction with Paul. Accordingly the entry into Canaan moves to the year 1827 B.C.

The Hebrews departed out of Egypt in 1867 B.C., 40 years before Joshua's office of judge, which is confirmed by Egyptian history, for Amos I reigned from 1904 B.C. onward. Furthermore Manetho testifies concerning the shepherd-kings that the Israelites entered Egypt in 2082, and from then to 1867 are exactly 215 years, during which the shepherd-kings dwelt in Goshen. The same is confirmed by the already-mentioned conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces in the 4th year before the birth of Moses, 1952 B.C. Since Moses was 80 years old at the exodus, this too requires that the Hebrews departed in 1867.

Regarding the divergences between the Septuagint and the Hebrew text, it is noted that one of the two chronologies must rest on deliberate falsifications, and that the Septuagint's is to be held the correct one. The Jews in Ethiopia still today have the chronology of the Septuagint; Christ and the apostles follow it, as does the priest's son Josephus. At that time, then, both texts must still have agreed. A falsification was not possible in the case of the Septuagint, because it rests on ancient manuscripts, [in] 240 [B.C.] was laid before the king of Egypt and many millions of Jews