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A94143	Calamus mensurans the measuring reed. Or, The standard of time. Containing an exact computation of the yeares of the world, from the creation thereof, to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Stating also, and clearing the hid mysteries of Daniels 70. weekes, and other prophecies, the time of Herods reigne; the birth, baptisme and Passion of our Saviour, with other passages never yet extant in our English tongue. In two parts. / By John Swan.	Swan, John, d. 1671.	1653 (1653)	Wing S6235; Thomason E706_4; ESTC R203659	246,136	350

was sometimes called Herod of Palestine or Herod Archelaus which is nothing strange because others of the same stocke had the like Praenomen or forename As for Example his name who was the Tetrarch of Galilee when the Baptist was beheaded and under whom our Saviour suffered was Antipas howbeit he was also called Herod Luke 23.8 Also Agrippa sonne of Aristobulus had not only the name of Agrippa but of Herod Act. 12.19 and so I do not doubt but that Archelaus was also sometimes called by the name of Herod Secondly Josep an t lib. 18 cap. 6. Philip dyed in the twentieth year of Tiberius and in the seven thirtieth year after his Father The twentieth of Tyberius began in the 78 Iulian year on the nineteenth day of August and ended not until the same time in the next year the death of Philip therefore was in the 79 Iulian yeare before the nineteenth of August and consequently the death of Herod in the three and fortieth yeare as at the first was proved Scaliger did somewhat sticke at these things whereupon his conjecture was that there might be some fault in Josephus and that for the 20 yeare of Tyberius we ought to read the 22 which he found warranted by Ruffinus an ancient interpreter of Josephus Kep Silva Chronol But Kepler answereth that the Greeke Copies of Iosephus are of better credit and that the fault therefore is in the Latine which we may not preferre above the Greeke because the one is the Translation the other the Originall Thirdly after Philip had gotten the Tetrachship of Galile Iosephus telleth us that he built a Towne and in the honour of Iulia the Daughter of Augustus called it Iuliada which certainely he did whilst Iulia was in favour otherwise he had transgressed against the Emperour but Iulia was out of favour and banished for her foule adultery in the foure and fortieth Iulian year And therefore Herod could not be alive in the beginning of the next year as Scaliger would have him because this Towne was not built by Philip till after his Fathers death And as for the banishment of Iulia Dion lib. 48. that it was in the yeare aforesaid is thus proved She was born saith Dion when Marcus Censorinus and Calvisius Sabinus were Consuls and from thenceforth flourished and lived in her Fathers favour and in the favour of the people of Rome Macrob. Sat. lib. 2. cap. 5. untill as saith Macrobius the eighth and thirtieth yeare of her age These men were Consuls in the seventh Iulian year the eight and thirtieth from whence was sure enough the foure and fortieth in which year Cesar himselfe was the thirteenth time Consul Fourthly Iosephus also testifieth that after Herod was dead the sonnes of Herod contended before Augustus concerning their Fathers Heritage and then Cajus was at Rome and sat in judgement but Cajus was absent and gone into Syria in the same year that Iulia was banished And therefore Herod must needes be dead before that time And that Cajus went so soone into Syria may thus be proved He was borne as Dion sheweth in that year when Apuleius and Nerva were Consuls which was in the six and twentieth Iulian year in the nineteenth year after he went into Syria and afterwards into Armenia returning no more for he died in the 49 Iulian year when Sex Aelius and Sentius were Consuls as is testified by Paterculus Tacitus saith Quirinus was made an Overseer to Cajus Cesar not being twenty yeares old when he went to Warres in Armenia Ovid de Arte amandi lib. 1. Ovid gives him the same age which his Father had when he also began to be famous and enter into the Warres which was about nineteene according to what is found in an old Monument recording the famous deeds done by Augustus Annos undeviginti natus exercitum privato concilio privataque impensa c●mparavi Where the word undeviginti sheweth that he wanted one of twenty But what need I urge these two last proofes thus far seeing those before them are sufficient I conclude therefore that Herod dyed in the forty three Iulian yeare about the six and twentieth day of February which was three and thirty dayes before Easter for that he dyed so long before Easter appeareth by the great Pompe and State at his Funerall together with some other circumstances mentioned by Iosephus Three and thirty dayes before that 's the least it might perhaps be forty which will therefore make his death to be on the nineteenth day of February feria tertia that being the fift day of the twelfth Moneth Adar thirty seven yeares compleat from his first beginning to reigne and thirty four current from the death of Antigonus when he and Socius tooke Ierusalem There is no objection of moment that can be made against it howbeit because something is objected I shall not be wanting to give an answer Our Country-man Lydiat hath greatly taxed Iosephus as if herein he had reckoned amisse but it was an unjust censure For questionlesse those things wherein he blameth him and would make the world thinke him to be faulty would never have been forgotten by his adversarie Apion if in them he had been worthy of blame The greatest Cavill which I suppose can be urged is out of the fourteenth booke of his Antiquities at the beginning of the seventeenth Chapter where Herod is said to be of the age of fifteene yeares in the time of the Pharsalian battell which was in the year of the City 705 and yeare of the Iulian Period 4666. from whence he lived untill he was about seventy yeares old testified also by the same Author in the 17th Booke of his Antiquities at the eight Chapter and in his first Booke De bello Iudaico at the last Chapter From whence it followeth that Herod dyed not till the year of the Iulian Period 4720. which was the 52 Iulian year when A. Licinius and Q. Caeeilius were Consuls Which if it be true then must not the beginning of his reigne be untill the first year of the Actium fight where Iosephus setteth the seventh yeare of his reigne and not the first even the seventh of his 34 yeares accounted from the taking of Ierusalem by him and Socius Some indeed and among them Cardinall Baronius and our Country-man Lydiat begin the thirty seven years of his reigne but then grounding chiefly upon this That that fight being ended and the Victory falling on the side of Augustus Herod who had taken part with Antonius against him came as a suppliant laid downe his Crowne and had never more taken it up if Augustus the Conqueror had not been favourable and given him leave againe to weare it so that receiving his Crowne at that time from the hands of Augustus he at that time began the 37 years of his reign A weake argument I dare boldly say for this at the most was but the pardoning of his offence and thereupon the confirming of him in his

violence being assisted by Cyrus kinsman to Darius as Josephus writeth And good reason had Josephus for it Joseph antiq lib. 10. ca. 12. For the fall of Babylon was by the joynt forces of two as in another Chapter of the same Prophecy may be seen For thus hath the Lord said unto me Goe set a whatchman let him declare what he seeth And behold he saw a Charet with a couple of horses Esa 21.7 and at the ninth verse And behold here commeth a Charet of men and a couple of Horsemen and he answered and said Babylon is fallen is fallen But by whom is it fallen this the second verse sheweth in these words Goe up O Elam besiege O Media By which we see that the Elamites and Medians or the Persians and Medes united into one body but under two Commanders were the people foretold to come with joynt forces for the destruction of Babylon these being that Ram with two hornes in the eighth of Daniel For the Ram which thou sawest having two hornes are the Kings of Media and Persia Dan 8.20 And hereupon it came to passe that at the taking of Babylon and death of Belshazzar the Kingdome was divided among the Medes and the Persians Dan 5.28 Howbeit the chiefe authority and power might be in the Medes and therefore saith Jeremy Make bright the arrows gather the shields the Lord hath raised up the Spirit of the Kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it Jer. 51.11 Which though it were yet the dexterity in expediting this businesse and in using that Stratageme of * See Xenoph. in his Cyrop li. 7. and Jer. 51.36 dividing the great river Euphrates is ascribed by Xenophon unto Cyrus Nor doth Herodotus but name him the onely authour and beginner of this War the reason whereof is because by his valour and skill the victory was gotten Which being obtained Cyrus forthwith intitles Darius to the Kingdome both because he was his Uncle and also his Elder as Saint Jerom observeth and as Xenophon likewise gives a touch at telling us what Cyrus first said to Cyaxares after the taking of Babylon namely that there was provided for him in Babylon a choyce Palace with stately Edifices that if he come thither he might keep his Court there as in his owne Xenoph. lib. 8. Which is as if it should be said he had now conquered it for him and he might if he pleased freely receive it agreeing therein with the Prophet Daniel who saith that when Belshazzar was slain Darius Medus received the Kingdome being about threescore and two year old Dan. 5.30.31 But then again because at this victory there were Parsin parters to share the Empire not of Madai onely but also of Elam we must know that Cyrus King of Paras or Elam excluded not himselfe but was fellow in Empire with Darius and so the Kingdome was divided between the Medes and the Persians as in the hand-writing upon the wall was declared And so likewise the Jews which were to serve the Chaldeans during the time of their Kingdome which hath been already proved tobe 70 years served them till the reigne of the Persians 2 Chron. 36.20 Nor was this uniting but known to those Greeks in whom the Persian Armies are called Medes as I shall afterwards mention To whom the seventy Translaters applyed themselves when they put for the Hebrew text Paras the terme Medes in this text of the Chronicles And further as for Nabonidas formerly mentioned questionlesse he was the same with Belshazzar for neither doth Josephus nor Berosus attribute to either of them more then 17 years Nor doth Josephus tell us any other thing then that Belshazzar was by the Babylonians called Naboandel as before was noted a name not far differing from Nabonidus in Berosus but differing far enough from Darius Medus To which Josephus doth once again bear witnesse in saying that Darius together with Cyrus his allie destroyed the state of the Babylonians as before was also noted affirming moreover that he was the son of Astyages and is otherwise called by the Greeks And therefore in very truth Darius Medus was not Nabonidus but Cyaxares the second as Xenophon plainly and perspicuously hath related Beside all which this also may be added That the Babylonians would not be so simple to deliver their Empire to a man who was a Mede seeing they thought not so well of the Medes as of other Nations because the bounds of their Kingdome were enlarged far and trenched much upon the Chaldean greatnesse which made them therefore fearfull and suspicious over them To which opinion as saith Pererius Herodotus addes no little force Perer. on Da. Herodot lib. 1 writing that Nitocris Queen of Babylon and mother to Labynitus did greatly fortifie the City of Babylon against the forces and invasions of the Medes Nay more when the Lord rendred unto Babylon and to all the Inhabitants of Chaldea all their evill that they had done in Sion he then stirred up the Nations with the Kings of the Medes and the Captaines thereof and all the Land of his Dominion Jer. 51.24 28. and Esa 13.17 There is therefore more in it I see then the bare delivering of the Kingdome to a man born in Media and brought up in Babylon Hist World lib 3 cap. 2. sect 2.3 for as Sir Walter Raleigh truely gathered from hence the Medes were cheife actors in the subversion of the Babylonian Empire And though the Greeks saith he ascribe the conquest of Babylon to Cyrus alone yet the Scriptures teach uss that Darius was not onely King of Media and had the Persians to be his followers but that the Army victorious over Belshazzar was his being compounded of the strength of both Nations to wit the Medes and Persians with other the vassals of Darius which were all led under the conduct of Cyrus who was cheife General of the Army and had the honour of the victory wholly given to him who was the instrument preordained and forenamed by God himselfe for this action even for the sake of his Church Esa 45.1 2 3 4. And againe It is not saith he more certaine that Belshazzar Iost his life and Kingdome Ide lib. 3. ca. 1. sect 5. then that his Kingdome was divided and given to the Medes and Persians Neither did the Medes and Persians fall out about it as by supposing Nabonidus to have been Darius they should be thought to have done but these two Nations did compound the body of the Empire and were accounted Lords of the subject Provinces insomuch that the Greek Historians did commonly call those Wars which Darius and after him Xerxes made upon Greece The Wars of the Medes Dan. 8.20 yea to cleare this point saith the same authour still even Daniel himselfe resembles that King with whom Alexander fought unto a Ram with two hornes calling him the King of the Medes and the Persians Wherefore saith he the whole Nation of Chronologers were not