PARALLEL DATES FROM THE END OF THE OLD-TESTAMENT HISTORY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW. PERSIA. EGYPT. ROME AND THE WORLD. 536 529 ..... Conquered by Cambyses.. 525 Confucius, China, fl. 522 Temple finished (?) 515 521 Zoroaster, Persia Hippias expelled Athens.. 510 ..... 485 520 Marathon 490 Artaxerxes I. (Longim.).. 465 Ezra's return 458 Thermopyla and Salamis. 480 Xerxes II. 424 Nehemiah's 446 Herodotus fl. 445 V. (Epiphanes).. 204 (Hannibal took refuge with 174 VI. (Philometor) 180 Antiochus III.) 172 (Lysias Guardian) PARALLEL DATES FROM THE END OF THE OLD-TESTAMENT HISTORY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW-continued. SYRIA. Antiochus V. (Eupator) EGYPT. ROME AND THE WORLD. First Roman army in Asia defeats Antiochus.. 190 Demetrius Soter 162 Judas Maccabeus 165 Antiochus VI. Theos 144 .... 142 Simon, king and priest.. 143 140 John Hyrcanus Cyzicenus 112 Aristobulus I. Tigranes, king of Armenia 83 Alexandra, Queen Mother 78 Hyrcanus II. and Aristobu 69 lus II. ... 65 Hyrcanus II. high-priest 153 Third Punic War began. 149 Carthage and Corinth destroyed 148 135 Alexander Jannæus, 96 Pompey and Cicero born.. 106 Julius Cæsar born........ 100 Pilate, Procurator.. 26 55 Ptolemy and Cleopatra 40 37 The Romans 3 THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES. CHAPTER I. THE CLAIMS OF CHRISTIANITY AS A DIVINE REVELATION. CHRISTIANITY claims to be a divine revelation. By this we understand that it professes to be something beyond the ordinary course of Nature,-taking that term Nature in its widest meaning, to include both the ordinary phenomena of the outward universe, and the constitutional faculties of the human mind as taught and developed by the ordinary course of phenomena and events around it. In one sense, indeed, the Religion of Nature might itself be called a divine revelation. God is known in His works. The Scriptures themselves expressly point to the works of Nature as manifestations of the Supreme Being. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handiwork." "The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; even his eternal power and godhead." Christianity, in announcing itself as a revelation, admits, or rather assumes, all this as its very basis. It assumes that man has a religious Faculty to which it may address itself; and that the Creation in which he stands and the Providence which is over him have already imparted to him |