other than the six patriarchs of the old world; who kings enumerated in the list of Berosus were no The foregoing tables demonstrate, that the 957 = 970 957 = 970 128 130 1085 1100 10851100 119 120 1204 1220 1204 1220 177 = 180 1381 1400 1381 1400 98 = 100 1479=1500 1479 = 1500 177 = 180 .. 1656 1680 728 = 740 succeeded each other in the government of the world, after the death of the first-created. Both Abydenus and Apollodorus agree in the above statement; placing the number of Eapoi that each reigned against their respective names, and adding "there were other princes (or patriarchs) so that the sum of the number of princes who reached to the deluge was ten;" agreeably to the lists given in the comparative statement, making the prince who was saved in the ark the eighth ruler, and last patriarch. That he was so considered by the Hebrews, is recorded in the Old Testament, and confirmed in the new. For the dates given in the foregoing tables are extracted from the fifth chapter of Genesis: and, in the second Epistle of St. Peter, chap. vi, we read that God spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood upon the world of the ungodly." We further learn from the works of Berosus, that the race, which he records, was that of Cain; for although the number of years from the death of Adam to the deluge, the number of princes that succeeded each other during that space, and the aggregate number of years which their reigns occupied, all agree with the Hebrew text, yet the specific length of each reign differs from those in the line of Seth; a strong corrobora tive proof of their authenticity. It has been urged that Abydenus and Apollodorus differ in their accounts of these reigns. This is in part true; the former being the more correct historian. He informs us that "after Daus succeeded Anadophus the son of Acdoreschus :" In like manner as the Hebrew text records, that after Jared succeeded Methuselah the son of Enoch: while Apollodorus, observing in the list of patriarchs, that the name of Acdoreschus followed that of Daus*, in like manner, as the name of Enoch followed that of Jared in the Hebrew, without adverting to the period of his death, supposes him the successor of his father. Elmachinus is guilty of the same error. For he tells us that "when the death of Jared approached, he assembled his sons Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah; and exhorted them relative to the wickedness, and impiety of the times." And another author (Eutychius) informs us that "he appointed his eldest son Enoch to succeed him." Now we know that Enoch was translated 435 years before the death of Jared. But it is certain that many authors, ancient as well as modern, represent the ten patriarchs as ten kings; whereas six only, exclusive of Adam, became sovereigns. This distinction is marked by Berosus, and followed by * Vide Table XXI. Abydenus, although neglected by others. Again, Abydenus names the prince who was saved in the ark, Sisuthros; Apollodorus names him Amempsinus*. But as each, after the name adds, “during his time happened the well-known deluge," the generation intended is identified beyond controversy. Both Apollodorus and Alexander Polyhistor are said to allot 18 Zapot for the reign of the prince, who was saved in the ark; but neither of them pretends that it was in the antediluvian world, or mentions the deluge, as having been during his reign. One author says, "this last was the person who was warned to provide against the deluge:" another "in whose time was the wellknown deluge:" a third" in whose time was the great deluge." The Apostle states him to have been the eighth person, not the eighth king. Every nation places the first year of the reign of the patriarch, who was saved in the ark, the year after the commencement of the deluge. In respect * Amempsinus was probably the contemporary of Noah; but, not having succeeded to regal sway, he was very properly omitted by Berosus among his list of kings. Nevertheless, as being of the tenth generation of patriarchs in the line of Alaparus, it might be said: "in his time was the well-known deluge." A similar circumstance occurs in the Hindu history. It is recorded "that during the time of Malecheron happened the great deluge." But this prince, although of the tenth generation in the line of Atri, so far from being the sovereign of the world, ruled at Mavaliporam, on the coast of Coromandel. to the eighteen Zapot, which he is said to have reigned, there appears some error. Abydenus, the most faithful copyist from Berosus, does not mention it; and Apollodorus so evidently mistakes the patriarchs for the kings, that it is probable, as the last king of the race of Alaparus (Cain) reigned 18 Zapot, that he placed that number against the name of the prince whom he supposed to have been saved in the ark. The account given by Syncellus is evidently supposititious; being founded on what he supposed the meaning of Berosus. Reading that the sum of the princes, or the generations of the patriarchs was ten, and the duration of their rule an hundred and twenty Zapor, by way of elucidating a text, which he appears not to have understood, he carries Amempsinus, the name given by Apollodorus to the prince of the tenth generation, back to the eighth and that the number of the kings might be ten, and the duration of their collective reigns, an hundred and twenty Zapot, he adds to the seventy-four Zapo, assigned by the priests of Belos for the reign of the kings of the race of Alaparus, ten Zapor, for the reign of Amempsinus, and introduces another king whom he names Otiartes of Larancha; and allots eight Zapot for his reign. Adding: " then came his son Xisusthrus, who reigned eighteen Zapo, in whose time was the well-known deluge." He thereby brings |