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  • INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION

     

    Chronological Notes relative to this Book.

    • Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, or that used by the Byzantine historians, and other eastern writers, 5604.
    • Year of the Alexandrian era of the world, 5598.
    • Year of the Antiochian era of the world, 5588.
    • Year of the world, according to Archbishop Usher, 4100.
    • Year of the world, according to Eusebius, in his Chronicon, 4322.
    • Year of the minor Jewish era of the world, or that in common use, 3856.
    • Year of the Greater Rabbinical era of the world, 4455.
    • Year from the Flood, according to Archbishop Usher, and the English Bible, 2444.
    • Year of the Cali yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 3198.
    • Year of the era of Iphitus, or since the first commencement of the Olympic games, 1036.
    • Year of the era of Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 845.
    • Year of the CCXVIIIth Olympiad, 4.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 843.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to Frontinus, 847.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to the Fasti Capitolini, 848.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to Varro, which was that most generally used, 849.
    • Year of the era of the Seleucidae, 408.
    • Year of the Caesarean era of Antioch, 144.
    • Year of the Julian era, 141.
    • Year of the Spanish era, 134.
    • Year from the birth of Jesus Christ, according to Archbishop Usher, 100.
    • Year of the vulgar era of Christ’s nativity, 96.
    • Year of Pacorus II, king of the Parthians, 6.
    • Year of the Dionysian period, or Easter Cycle, 97.
    • Year of the Grecian Cycle of nineteen gears, or Common Golden Number, 2; or the first embolismic.
    • Year of the Jewish Cycle of nineteen years, 18; or the year before the seventh embolismic.
    • Year of the Solar Cycle, 21.
    • Dominical Letters, it being the Bissextile, or Leap Year, CB.
    • Day of the Jewish Passover, the twenty-fifth of March, which happened in this year on the day before the Jewish Sabbath.
    • Easter Sunday, the twenty seventh of March.
    • Epact, or age of the moon on the 22d of March, (the day of the earliest Easter Sunday possible,) 11.
    • Epact, according to the present mode of computation, or the moon’s age on New Year’s day, or the Calends of January, 19.
    • Monthly Epacts, or age of the moon on the Calends of each month respectively, (beginning with January,) 19, 21, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 26, 27, 29, 29.
    • Number of Direction, or the number of days from the twenty-first of March to the Jewish Passover, 4.
    • Year of the Emperor Flavius Domitianus Caesar, the last of those usually styled The Twelve Caesars, 15: Nerva began his reign in this year.
    • Roman Consuls, C. Antistius Vetus, and C. Maulius Valens.

     


    THIS WAS CLIPPED FROM ADAM CLARK'S COMMENTARY, VOLUME 6.

    MR. CLARKS COMMENTARY IS A PUBLIC DOMAIN DOCUMENT.