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A09268	The period of the Persian monarchie VVherein sundry places of Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel are cleered: extracted, contracted, and englished, much of it out of Doctor Raynolds, by the late learned and godly man William Pemble, of Magdalen Hall in Oxford. Published and enlarged since his death by his friend, Richard Capel.	Pemble, William, 1592?-1623.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1631 (1631)	STC 19582; ESTC S114347	63,361	88

imperfect round and grosse for corrupt These 70. yeares begin at the time of the first Captivitie in the reigne of Ioakim Now from this time till the eleventh yeare of Zedekiah when hee was captived the Temple and Citie burnt the Land cannot be said to keepe Sabbaths because the Inhabitants were not yet carried away and therefore it was but a part of these 70. years that she rested Not precisely For reckon from their first inhabiting of those Cities and we find it but 260. yeares or thereabouts unlesse we adde the 40 yeares from comming up out of Egypt But it ought to be understood synecdochicè and figuratè Often mention is made of three years and a halfe of 42 moneths which make so many yeares of 1260. dayes which also make so many years In all which we must needs understand a certaine number to be put for an uncertaine that is for the whole time that runnes on from the passion of Christ till the end of the World Let us consider the drift and scope of the Angels speech Daniel he understands by bookes that the 70. yeares of Captivitie were now even at an end Hereupon hee prayeth that God would bee mercifull to the people and holy Citie An Angel is sent to him and talkes unto him not of the 70. yeares of Captivitie to be ended under Cyrus but of seventy times seven yeares of most glorious deliverance from the slavery of Hell and the Divell to be purchased by Christ. As if the Angel had thus said Thou Daniel thinkest of 70. yeares at the end whereof thy people is to have a deliverance from carnall servitude under Babylon and a restauration of an earthly Ierusalem but I give thee to understand of a farre more glorious liberty and freedom from Sathans slaverie to be purchased by Christ for thy people after 70. times 7. yeares Doe not thou thinke of 70. years which are now even gone and past but of 70 times 7 yeares which when they are come to end thy people and city for whom thou prayest shal obtain this great blessing Wherefore this is spoken in allusion to the 70 yeares of Captivitie to shew that Gods mercy should exceed his judgements seventie times which from that should endure seventy times seven yeare till the comming of Christ and afterwards for ever It is therfore a propheticall prediction and not an hystoricall relation and the circumscription of time is used only for memory sake that after these many yeares they should be sure to obtain such a deliverance as than which they could desire nothing more Not precisely For from the time that God spake unto Abraham whence the yeares must necessarily beginne unto the comming of the children of Israel out of Egypt are 430. yeares as Moses witnesses Exo. 12. If we say that they begin at the fift yeare of Isaac yet from the time that God spake unto that are about twenty yeares From that to the departure of the Israelites whole 400. Wherefore from the time that God spake this till the departure from Egypt are foure hundred synecdochicè above foure hundred precisely What! precisely fourteene in all No. From David to the Captivity of Babylon were twenty seven as M r Broughton confesseth In the other two were indeed fourteene Full and whole By no means For Christ was buried on the Evening of the sixt day the same day he dyed The seventh day he rested in the grave upon the eight day early he rose againe So that he was but two whole dayes in the grave and scarce that neither Now the Day and the Night make one Day Gen. 1. And therfore because Christ rested in the Sepulchre part of three dayes he is sayd by a synecdoche to bee three dayes and three nights in the heart of the Earth If the Angel had sayd The seventy yeares of your Captivity in Babylon But after 80. times seventy yeares Christ shal be slaine and so you shall obtaine a more glorious freedome Then had the Angel spoken precisely for from that time to the death of Christ was precisely five hundred sixty yeares But so the force efficacy of the Type had bin obscured To which the Angel would allude by the name of seventy times seven yeares Antiochus his persecution continued three yeares and a halfe precisely Dan. 7. Now Antiochus was a Type of Satan And therefore the Time times and halfe a Time forty two moneths 1260. dayes all making up the same number of yeares are uttered by S. Iohn Apoc. 11.12 13. in allusion to Antiochus persecution For by this he comforteth the Woman that is the Church persecuted by the Dragon Satan That this persecution should last but a little while even as that of Antiochus not properly but figuratively for Satan persecuteth the Church unto the end of the world That the seventy weekes are not to bee understood precisely but by a synecdoche is thus proved Seventy weekes are determined upon thy People saith Gabriel Dan. 9. ver 24. That these are whole and full so many is proved by their partition For there are seven weekes from the going forth of the Commandement ver 25. and sixty three weekes when the street and wall shall be builded and againe after threescore and two weekes Christ shall be slaine But not presently after those sixty nine weekes but in the middle of the last weeke ver 27. Where it is sayd And he shall confirme the Covenant with money for one weeke and in the Middle of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease Then thus the Reason stands If Christ dyed in the middest of the last weeke then from the first yeare of Cyrus to the death of Christ are not precisely 490. yeare● but 486. and a halfe The reason of the consequence is plaine For if Christ dyed in the middest of the last weeke i.e. the seventieth week then to the death of Christ from Cyrus the first are but sixty nine weeks and a halfe Now sixty nine weekes cum dimidio make but foure hundred eighty six yeares cum dimidio whereas seventy whole weekes make foure hundred ninety yeares But Christ dyed in the middest of the last weeke This is manifest For Christ then dyed when sacrifice and oblation ceased This is proved by the ninth and tenth to the Hebrewes But sacrifice and oblation ceased in the middest of the last weeke This Daniel expressely saith Cap. 9. ver 27. Therefore from the first yeare of Cyrus to the death of Christ are not foure hundred ninety yeares precisely And by consequent the seventy weekes are to be understood figuratè and synecdochicè not praecisè and tropriè Christ was baptized about three yeares and a halfe before he dyed and then saith Funccius was sacrifice oblation abolished out of the place Mat. 3. ult This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased And therefore God was pleased afterward with no other sacrifice but the immaculate Lambe Christ. But

the Empire z After he began to reigne alone a Artaxerxes Muemon Darius saith the Geneva b The third moneth of the yeare according to the Chaldean calculation which Nehemiah followes Nehem. 2.1 Now in the moneth c Nisa● in the 20. yeare of K. d Artashashte the wine ●tood before him and I took up the cup and gave it to the King c The 7. moneth by the Chaldean accompt d Artaxerxes Muemon Darius Hystaspis saith the Geneva Nehem 5.14 And from the time that the K. gave mee charge to be Governour in the land of Iudah from the 20. yeare even to the 32. yeare that is 12 years I and my Brethren have not eaten the bread of the Governour Notwithstanding the Wall was finished on the 25. day of Elul in e 52. dayes When the Wall was builded c. e That is the Lockes Gates and Barres were set up fifty two dayes after the stone wall was built vers 1. Now the Citie was large and great but the people were few therein and the houses were not builded And f Ieshua begate Ioiakim Ioiakim also begate Eliashib and Eliashib begate Ioiada and Io●ada begate Ionathan and Ionathan begate Iaddua In the dayes of Eliashib Ioiada and Iohanan and Iaddua were the chiefe Fathers of the Levites written in the reigne of Dar●us the Persian f The succession of the hie Priests from the captivity to the translation of the Persian Monarchy to Alexander the Great whom as Ioseph Antiq. Iud. lib. 11. cap. 7. 8. reports Iaddua did meet as he came towards Ierusalem Now none ought to wonder that Nehemiah should record this for from the beginning of Artaxerxes Muemon whom Nehemiah attended untill Alexander Magnus are not threescore yeares g The last King of Persia called also Codomannus Him Alexander overthrew Nehemiah lived till the time of Darius the Persian Nehem. 12.22 Therefore the Altar erected by the Israelites Ezr. 33. not long after their returne even while Cyrus yet reigned could not be built by Nehemiah unlesse we say that Nehemiah lived above 200. yeares which is not credible For so many yeares at least were betweene Cyrus and Darius the last whom Alexander overcame CHAP. III. Doubts removed which seemed to prove the Persian Monarchy much shorter than the former accompt Answer 1. THat Mordecay was not carried captive from Ierusalē with Ieconiah That place Ester 2.5 Who was carried away is necessarily to be referred to Kish Mordecay's great grandfather 1 The accent Tipcha proves nothing 2 Nor the Conjunction Copulative And bee nourished Hadassa 3 No more doth the history or narration of Kish put betweene in vers 6. 4 If Mordecay named Ester 2.2 were the same that is mentioned in Ester yet it followes not that he was carried captive with I●coniah from Ierusalem For Zerubbabel himselfe with whom he is mentioned was not carried captive with I●coniah but was begotten in the captivity by Pedajah the sonne of Salathiel ●onne by law though not by nature of Iaconiah Againe Mordecay mentioned in Ezra 2. returned into Iudaea as is manifested by Nehem. 7.7 but Mordecay in Ester went not into Iudaea at all Arguments to prove it are 1 The Pronoune relative must be referred to the next going before it and not to that which is further off as 1. Chron. 2.7 2 To what other end should mention be made of Kish unlesse to shew by his carrying away captive how Mordecay a Iew borne of him became citizen of Susa Certainly he is not named to distinguish him from the other Mordecay which is one rule why mens fathers and grandfathers are named in Scripture 3 This confirms the truth of Gods promise which he made to those that were carryed away captive with Ieconiah Ier. 24.6 That they should returne be built up planted and not rooted out c. And therefore were commanded to marry and beget children Ier. 29.6 Whereby it appeares that the promise was made unto their posterity also The performance whereof by this story of Ester is excellently declared 4. From the time For if Mordecay were carried away captive with Ieconiah then was he above a hundred yeares old in the 12 th of Assuer●s according to Broughton For by 2 Kings 24.16 wee may iudge him to bee at the least 20· yeares old when hee was carried Captiue From the 8 th of Nebuchadnezzar in which Ieconiah was captived to the first of Cyrus are 63. yeares From the first of Cyrus to the 12. of Assuerus are 20. yeares All make 103. at least 100. At which age Mordecay was altogether unfit to performe offices and services in Court As Barzillay at a lesse age But reckon we the times of Cyrus and Cambyses aright and make as the truth is Assuerus to bee Xerxes and there are betwixt Cyrus the first and Xerxes the twelfth 60. yeares So Mordecay shall have lived about 140. yeares in the twelfth of Xerxes being then too of strong and able body and likely to live longer As may appeare Ester 10.2 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Answer 2. There be two Nehemiahs One mentioned Ezra 2. Another who returned in the 20. yeare of Artaxerxes Mnemon and lived till the reigne of Darius the Persian Answer 3. There is Ambiguity in the word Son which M. Broughton takes properly as if Ezra had beene immediately the sonne of Serajah whereas indeed he was so Serajahs sonne as the Iewes used to call their posteritie even to the fifth descent Sonnes And Zerubbabel is usually called the son of Shealti●l whereas he was but his nephew Answer 4. When Daniels 70. weekes begin is uncertaine Some will have them begin in the first yeare of Cyrus some in the second of Darius Nothus others in the twentieth of Artaxerxes Mnemon A man may follow his judgement for neyther the one nor the other is defined in the Text Dan. 9.25 but is absolutely put from the outgoing of the Word which we know went forth in three Kings reignes But for the end and period of them it must necessarily be at the death of Christ and not as some will have it at the destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes It s plain Dan. 9.24 But to graunt this Proposition true though uncertaine that Daniels seventie Weekes begin at the first yeare of Cyrus yet doth not this follow thereupon That from the first yeare of Cyrus are precisely 490. years for Numbers are eyther taken Properly when they note that which naturally they signifie Improperly or figuratively when they signifie eyther more or lesse in regard of the circumstance of the matter and the speakers intention So is Two and Three taken properly Matth. 16.21 27.23 20.19 Improperly Hos. 6.2 Seven properly 1. King 18. Figuratively Luc. 17.4 Matth. 18.22 Ten properly Exod. 34.28 figuratively Numb 14.22 Twelve properly Mat. 10.2 figuratively Apoc. 7. Thousands figuratively Dan. 7.10 So that often in Scriptures Numbers finite are put for infinite certaine for uncertaine perfect for