The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D., sometime fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge

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Title: The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D., sometime fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge
Author: Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.
Publication: London :: Printed by Roger Norton for Richard Royston ...,; 1672.
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Subject terms: Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; Theology -- Early works to 1800.; Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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APPENDIX.

ALthough I think that preciseness of days is not to be much stood upon, when the Events and their Times do in the whole answer to Prediction: yet have I been so curious as to enquire whether the Desolation of the City and Sanctuary (to be in the middle of the Seventieth Week) were fulfilled to a very day or not. And, as I think, I have so found it, very near, if not altogether.

For Anno Iudaico 3344. AErae mundi Scaligerianae 3533. (the year the Temple was finished) Neomenia Tisri, according to the Iews Calendar, fell upon the 9 of September Calendarii Iuliani, Feriâ 1. Cyclo Solis 12. Literâ Dominic. G.

Ergò Neomenia Adar was Feb. 4. Fer. 2. Cyclo Solis 13. Literâ Dominicali F. So the 3 of Adar (the day whereon the Temple was finished, Ezra 6. 15.) will be the 6 of February. From whence to the 8 of August (whereon the Temple was fired, and two days after consumed) are exclusive 182 days, that is, half a year adunguem.

But this year (according to the Iudaical Calendar) was Annus Embolimaeus, and so had two Adars; which of them the Scripture meaneth is doubtful. But the Neomenia of the second Adar was March 5. Feria 4. So the 3 day of this Adar was the 7. of March: From whence to the 8. of September (the day whereon the City was fired) are exclusive 184 days, which is a day or two too much. But it is more than probable that the Iewish Calendar was not in Darius his time so exact, nor the Moon's motion so well known, but the New Moon might sometimes anticipate the beginning of their Months a day or two.

Howsoever those who begin their reckoning from the 2^d year of Darius, as Scali∣ger doth) cannot from the 24^th day of the 6^th Month (Sept. 16.) (which the Prophet Haggai names, chap. 1. v. ult. for the day whereon the work began) shew their com∣pleat Seventy Weeks so exactly terminated upon any Event remarkable during the whole time of the War. For as for the destruction of Ierusalem it self, they come not near it by whole years.