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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. The Week In History. Scripture The Chart Of History.--Preliminary Questions As To Historic And Prophetic Chronology.--The Age Of The Human Race.--Old Testament Chronology.--The Hebrew And The Septuagint Chronology Compared.-- How Are We To Interpret The Symbolic Periods Of ProPhetic Chronology?--Exposition And Defence Of The Year-day System.--Moral Features Distinguishing The Three Great Dispensations--The Patriarchal--The Jewish--The Christian. Chronological Measures Of These Dispensations.--The Period Of "Seven Times" Shown To Be The Duration Of The Last Or Gentile DisPensation, And Also Of The Two Earlier. THE Bible is the only book in the world that gives us a view of human history as a whole, that carries us from the lost Paradise of Eden, to the restored Paradise of the Apocalypse, traces the course of the human race through every stage of its intermediate existence on earth, and on beyond the limits of time, into the boundless regions of eternity. In it, and in it alone therefore, are we likely to find the key, if key there be, to the periodicity of history, --the underlying principle bringing the labyrinth of inharmonious periods and chronological irregularities which the annals of the human race at first sight present, into harmony with each other, and with the periods of nature and revealed religion. The histories of Scripture reach back to the furthest past, and its prophecies extend to the most distant future; taken together, as they are presented in the Bible, the two afford a panoramic view of the whole course of events, from the creation and fall of man, to the final judgment, and the inauguration of the new heavens and the new earth. The Bible is therefore the chart of all history, and it gives us, not events...