# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1856_S135
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Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections, etc. 135

of the holy Supper, so far as these are not contrary to God's Word; it would also have given its own strong testimony for the observance of Sunday, had there been occasion for this in the movements of the Reformation era, but it insists everywhere upon Christian liberty, which as God's commandment follows only that which is truly commanded us, partakers of the New Testament, by God. Whoever regards this purely evangelical doctrine concerning church ordinances and customs as papistic, and regards the greatest possible want of all liturgical adornment as evangelical, makes of this want, just as much as the papists do of their abundance, a commandment, and serves the Lord in vain by the observance of it — however much, for the rest, his sound reason, that is, his own accustomed way of thinking, may feel satisfied thereby.

(To be continued.)

(Submitted by A. Hoppe, pastor in New Orleans.)
Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections
of ancient history and chronology, especially Hebrew, together
with introductory remarks on the relationship of theology to
scholarship.

(Conclusion.)

The Septuagint (LXX) places the Flood in agreement with Egyptian history, for they reckon from Arphaxad, who was born 2 years after the Flood, to 1867, the year of the Exodus, 1578 years, according to which the Flood occurred in 3447 B.C. Other facts confirm this, as do the traditions of other peoples. Among the Chinese it falls in the year 8461; among the Indians, Chaldeans, and Phoenicians, at almost the same time. All agree with Holy Scripture as to its duration; for it begins on the 17th day of the second month after the autumnal equinox, and ends on the 7th of the Julian September. Even today the Indians celebrate a great feast in September in memory of the end of the Flood. According to Arabian and Indian traditions, the first day after the Flood was a Sunday, which indeed proves true for September 8, 3447. Moreover, even more specific traditions have been preserved among the ancient peoples, according to which it becomes almost mathematically certain that the postdiluvian era began on the 7th of September, 3447 B.C. (astronomically, 3446). For these ancient traditions report that the first men received from the gods the knowledge of the heavens and the stars (astronomy), further that the alphabet is as old as the human race, and all the ancient peoples, even the New Testament, speak of antediluvian books. Astronomy and the knowledge of the alphabet were carried forward through the Flood, as Josephus and the Koran expressly state. The alphabets of all ancient peoples agree