Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter I. the length of lite according to the antediluvian table. the human mind naturally arranges all objects and events according to their relations to each other in time and space. The multiplication of the former requires a corresponding extension of the latter. During the last half century our knowledge of the facts pertaining to the past has greatly increased; hence the strong desire for a more extended system of chronology than any of those heretofore received. Scholars of various schools have searched most earnestly in every direction for reliable data on which to construct it except the one where it is found--the tabulated names and dates in the fifth and eleventh chapters of Genesis. These, beginning with the head of the race, continue the succession of patriarchal governments, along the chosen line of Seth, through the primitive ages of the world down to the birth of Abraham, about 2000 B. C. Then the detailed history of himself and posterity opens, and dates become more satisfactory. The first or antediluvian table reads, according to our English translation and punctuation, as follows: 1. "And Adam lived 130 years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his nanie Seth: And the days of Adam after he begat Seth were 800 years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years: and he died. 2. And Seth lived 105 years, and begat Enos: And Seth lived after he begat Enos 807 years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Seth were 912 years; and he died. 3. And Enos lived 90 years, and begat Cainan: And Enos lived after he begat Cainan 815 years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enos were 905
