Breviarium chronologicum being a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology, by which that useful science may easily be attained to / writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius ... ; and now done into English from the third edition, with additions.
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Breviarium chronologicum being a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology, by which that useful science may easily be attained to / writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius ... ; and now done into English from the third edition, with additions.
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Strauch, Aegidius, 1632-1682.
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1699.
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CHAP. IX. Of the Epocha of the Israelites leaving of Aegypt.
1. The Beginning of this Epocha was at the En∣trance of the 431st year of the sojourning of th Israelites in Aegypt, which Interval was its first Origin to the Vocation of Abraham (a) 1.1.
2. The same year was the 480th, to count backward from the beginning of the Epocha of So∣lomon (b) 1.2.
3. It was likewise the 46th year before the Distri∣bution of the Land of Canaan by Lot, which was the first Sabbatic and Jubilean Year(c) 1.3.
4. Moses was at the time of the Israelites going out of Aegypt 80 years of Age(d) 1.4.
5. The Month when the Israelites went out of Ae∣gypt was the first in the Ecclesiastical year of the Jews, called Nisan, and began the New Moon next to the Vernal Aequinox (e) 1.5.
6. The Day of their going out of Aegypt was on the Full Moon, the 15th of Nisan, beginning in the Evening of the Passover(f) 1.6.
7. In the Hebdomadic Cycle it has for its Cha∣racter the fifth Feria; because the 22d Day of the Month Jiar was the seventh Fe∣ria (g) 1.7.
8. According to these Characters it is evident that the Jews kept their Passover in the 3217th year of the Julian Period, Cyc. ☉. 25. ☽. 6.
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...on the 16th day of April, about Sun-set, and went forth out of Aegypt very early the next Morning, and kept their Sabbath on the 23d day of May, when they collected the Manna; and on the 5th day of June the Law was promul∣gated in the Mount of Sinai (h) 1.8.
9. If therefore 3216 years and 3 Months be sub∣tracted* 1.9from any certain Year of the Julian Peri∣od, the Residue shews the year since the beginning of this Epocha. And if this Residue be added to these 3216 years, the Product will be correspon∣dent to the year of the Julian Period.
§. 1. THere are some who maintain that the year of the going of the Children * 1.10 of Israel out of Aegypt has been the third in the Sabbatic and Jubilean Cycle: But (i) 1.11Dorsheus has sufficiently demonstrated that the true Origin of the Sabbatic Year is not to be looked for till 46 years after, when the Israelites being put in the Possession of the Land of Canaan, distri∣buted the same among themselves by Lot.
§. 2. And Moses does not make an exact Mention * 1.12 of the time of the New Moon, next following after the Vernal Aequinox, in the beginning of the Month of Nisan; but most of the ancient Writers agree in this Hypothesis with the mo∣dern Authors, that the Passover which was in∣stituted at the time of their going out of Aegypt, was celebrated by the Jews on the 15th Day of the Month of Nisan, when the Moon was at the Full, as has been sufficiently demonstrated by (k) 1.13Josephus; by Philo, (who was contemporary with Christ) in many Places; by (l) 1.14Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History; and among the Moderns, by (m) 1.15Beda.
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§. 3. Moses is also silent as to the exact time * 1.16 of the Full Moon, when the Jews celebrated the Passover; but since he has been very careful in mentioning the End of the fourteenth and the be∣ginning of the fifteenth day of the Month of Nisan: For the celebrating of the Passover it seems in my Opinion to include the Character of the F. Moon. Of this Opinion are (n) 1.17Nicephorus Beda and (o) 1.18Philo.
§. 4. There is likewise a Dispute betwixt the * 1.19 Chronologers, and betwixt these and the Inter∣preters of the Holy Scripture, whether the time of the Passover, which is the beginning of the Epocha, of the Israelites going out of Aegypt, ought to be fixed on the fourteenth or fifteenth day of the Month of Nisan. It is our Opinion that the Ancient Jews did celebrate their Passover in the Evening▪ at the end of the fourteenth, and the beginning of the fifteenth day of the Month of Nisan. 1. Because the day of their going out of Aegypt is mentioned to have been the fifteenth of the Month of (p) 1.20Nisan; from whence it is evident that according to the Jewish Institution they celebrated the Passover on the same day. 2. From the Hebrew Text: the Words are as follows; (q) 1.21Your Lamb shall be without Blemish, of the first Year; you shall take it out from the Sheep or Goats: and you shall keep it up till the four∣teenth day of the same Month; and the whole Assem∣bly of the Congregation of Israel shall kill it in the Evening. 3. From the Computation of the days of Unleavened Bread, the Words of the Insti∣tution of this Feast are these: (r) 1.22And you shall observe the Feast of unle••vened Bread: for in this self same day have I brought your Armies out of the Land of Aegypt; therefore shall you observe this day in your Generations by an Ordinance for
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ever. In the first Month, on the fourteenth day of the Month, at Even, you shall eat unleavened Bread, until the one and twentieth day of the Month at Even. Which Words plainly inti∣mate, that the Feast of the Unleavened Bread ended on the one and twentieth Day of the Month of Nisan in the Evening, it being likewise said in the following Verse; Seven Days shall there be no Leaven found in your House. It is very evident from thence, that the beginning of the Days of the Unleavened Bread ought to be fixed on the End of the fourteenth Day of the Month of Nisan, or on the Beginning of the fifteenth, to count from Sun-set. And it is sufficiently demonstrable out of many Passages in (s) 1.23 Holy Scripture, that the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, and of the Passover began on the same 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. That which has occasioned this diffe∣rence among the Chronologers is, that since that time the Jews have begun their Months from the New Moon; so that the same day which before was the fifteenth, was after∣wards called the fourteenth day of the Month Nisan.
§. 5. The Chronologers do disagree in their * 1.24 Opinions concerning the Character of the Fe∣ria, when the Israelites went out of Aegypt. There are many, among which are Henricus Buntingus, Hicronymus Zanchius and Hamlinus, who maintain this day to have been the se∣venth Feria: They alledge in their behalf the Words in Deuteronomy:(t) 1.25Remember that thou wast a Servant in the Land of Aegypt; and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand and a stretched out Arm; Therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to
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keep the Sabbath Day.(u) 1.26William Lange de∣termines the Day of their Departure out of Aegypt to have been the fifteenth of Nisan, the fifth Day of April according to the Juli∣an Calendar, the first Day of the Unleavened Bread, and the sixth Feria, which he pretends to prove from the Authority of the Seder Olam Rabbah, or the great Hebrew Chronicle; with whom, in some measure consents (x) 1.27Tempora∣ritis. But the most general Opinion is, that the Jews began their Passover, and went out of Aegypt on the fifth Feria, to commence the Day from the Sun-set. Besides, many of the An∣cients, among the Modern Chronologers, (y) 1.28Josephus Scaliger,(z) 1.29Behmius in his Chrono∣logical Manuduction, Dorsheus, Frankenberge∣rus, and Calvisius agree in this Point; because it has most evidently appeared out of the A∣stronomical Calculations, that in the first year of the Departure of the Israelites out of Ae∣gypt. the Passover which was celebrated at the Full Moon was coincident with the fifth Feria; and the same Character is correspon∣dent to what is related in Exodus in the six∣teenth Chapter: For if the two and twenti∣eth day of the second Month (called Jiar) was the seventh Feria, it must needs follow, that the fifteenth of the Month of Nisan was the fifth Feria. For betwixt the twenty second Day of the Month Jiar and the fifteenth of Nisan are thirty seven Days; which, if divided by 7, the Residue is two Days; which if subtracted from 7, there remains 5; which demonstrates the fifteenth Day of the Month of Nisan to have been the fifth Feria:
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That the 23d of the Month of Jiar was the seventh Feria, is evident out of the above∣mentioned sixteenth Chapter of Exodus, where it is said, that on the fifteenth Day of the second Month (Jiar; they came unto the Wil∣derness of Sin; the same Day they murmured against Moses, and in the Evening the Quails came up and covered the Camp; and the next following Day being the sixteenth, before Sun∣rising they were blessed with the Manna for six Days together; to wit, the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st. The last Day they ga∣thered twice as much as the other Days; be∣cause of the Rest of the Sabbath of the next following Day being the 22d and the seventh Feria. But to give you a more exact Idea of such Maters as have a Relation to the Chro∣nology of this Epocha, the following Table repre∣sents the three first Months of the Year of the Israelites Departure out of Aegypt, and their Con∣gruity with the Julian Calendar.
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D. of the Mon. Nis.
Days of the Mon. of April.
The Feriae.
1
II
5
The beginning of the Ecclesiastical Tear
2
III
6
3
IV
VII
4
V
1
5
VI
2
☉ in ♈.
6
VII
3
7
VIII
4
8
IX
5
9
X
••
(Exod. 12. v. 3.
10
XI
VII
Segregation of the Paschal Lamb.
11
XII
1
12
XIII
2
13
XIV
3
14
XV
4
(out of Aegypt.
15
XVI
5
The Pas. First-born slain. Departure
16
XVII
6
They pitch their Tents in Etham.
17
XVIII
VII
They pitch in Pihahiroth.
18
XIX
1
They pass through the Red Sea.
19
XX
2
20
XXI
3
They pitch in Marah.
21
XXII
4
22
XXIII
5
23
XXIV
6
24
XXV
VII
25
XXVI
1
26
XXVII
2
27
XXVIII
3
28
XXIX
4
29
XXX
5
30
I of May
6
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D. of the Mon. Jiar.
Days of the Mon. of May.
The Feriae.
1
II
VII
2
III
1
3
IV
2
4
V
3
5
VI
4
6
VII
5
7
VIII
6
8
IX
VII
9
X
1
10
XI
2
11
XII
3
12
XIII
4
13
XIV
5
14
XV
6
15
XVI
VII
They come to the Wilderness of Sin.
16
XVII
1
The Gathering of Manna.
17
XVIII
2
18
XIX
3
19
XX
4
20
XXI
5
21
XXII
6
22
XXIII
VII
No Manna by reason of the Sabbath.
23
XXIV
1
They come in Raphidim.
24
XXV
2
25
XXVI
3
Moses strikes Water out of the Rock.
26
XXVII
4
The Jews vanquish the Amalekites.
27
XXVIII
5
Jethro comes to Moses.
28
XXIX
6
Election of the LXX Elders.
29
XXX
VII
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D. of the Mon. Siv.
Days of the Mon. of June.
The Feriae.
1
XXXI
1
They come into the Wildern. of Sinai. Exod. 19. v. 1.
2
I June.
2
3
II
3
4
III
4
5
IV
5
6
V
6
7
VI
VII
Beginning of the 40 days Moses staid
8
VII
1
upon the Mount, the End of which falls in the Month of Tamuz, which is observed as a Fast-day by the Jews to this day.
9
VIII
2
10
IX
3
11
X
4
12
XI
5
13
XII
6
14
XIII
VII
15
XIV
1
16
XV
2
17
XVI
3
18
XVII
4
19
XVIII
5
20
XIX
6
21
XX
VII
22
XXI
1
23
XXII
2
24
XXIII
3
25
XXIV
4
26
XXV
5
27
XXVI
6
28
XXVII
VII
29
••XVIII
1
3••
XXIX
2
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§. 6. The Words in (a) 1.30Exodus, and the whole * 1.31 Assembly of the Congregation of Israel shall kill it betwixt the two Evenings, have met with va∣rious Interpretations. Aben Ezra understands by it the Interval betwixt Sun-set and the Begin∣ning of the Night; of which Opinion is also Rabbi David Kimchi: But since, according to (b) 1.32Josephus, at the Feast of one Passover there were slain 255600 Lambs, we also agree with the same Author in Opinion, who asserts that the Jews used to begin at nine a-clock (about three in the Afternoon with us) to kill these Beasts, and leave off again at eleven (about five with us.)