Three Taverns, a place 30 miles from Rome. Tibe'rias, now Tabaria, the capital of Galilee. Tro'as, a district of A. M. Tyre, now Sur, a s. p. of Phenicia. CHAPTER XVII.-MONIES, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES OF THE SCRIPTURES. THE several monies, weights, and measures mentioned by the sacred writers, were not all of Hebrew origin. Some of them were Greek, and others Roman, as these people in succession conquered the east; for with their government they introduced their coins and methods of policy. There is considerable difficulty in making accurate calculations respecting both coins and measures; and learned men differ in several particulars relating to them. The following tables have been prepared from the most judicious writers on the subject. 1. Mite, Mark xii. 42., it weighed half a barley-corn, and was in value about of a farthing English 2. Farthing, or quadrans, two mites, or about of our farthing 3. Assyrium, or ass, Matt. x. 29., the tenth part of a Roman penny, or about three farthings English Silver Money 1. Gerah, Exod. xxx. 13., about 2. Penny, denarius, or drachma, Matt. xx. 2., the fourth of a shekel. 0072 d. gr. 3. Bekah, Exod. xxxviii. 6., half a shekel 0 5. Maneh, mina, or pound, Luke xix. 13., fifty shekels 6. Talent, sixty manehs or pounds 0 1. Finger, Jer. lii. 21., the breadth of a man's thumb, about 2. Handbreath, Exod. xxv. 25., four fingers 5. Fathom, Acts xxvii. 28., four cubits 0 0 5 0 0 0 10 0 2 600 125 0 0 0 6. Reed, Ezek. xl. 3-5., nearly eleven feet, or yds. ft. in 0000022 03 0 31 0 101 0 0 0 measure 233 0 9. Mile, Matt. v. 41., eight furlongs - 00 Liquid Measures. 1. Log, Lev. xiv. 10, equal to six egg-shells full 3. Bath, 1 Kings vii. 26., or firkin, John ii. 6., - 4. Cor, or homer, Ezek. xlv. 14. Isa. v. 10., the 2. Cab, 2 Kings vi. 25., or chenix, Rev. vi. 6. 3. Omer, Exod. xvi. 36., or tenth-deal, ch. 4. Seah, Matt. xiii. 33. about 5. Ephah, or bath, Ezek. xlv. 11. about THE CHAPTER XVIII.-CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX TO The true date of the birth of Christ is four years earlier than PERIOD OR AGE I. From the Creation to the Deluge, containing 1656 years From the Deluge to the call of Abraham, containing 427 years. 1657 2347 Noah, with his family, leaves the ark after the deluge, the covenant of safety, of 1770 2234 Babel built, the confusion of languages, and the disper- Gen. viii. 18. 20; ix. 8-17. xi. 19. 2233 Nimrod lays the first founda- - Gen. x. 8-11. 1816 2188 Mizraim, the son of Ham, the son of Noah, commences 1824 2180 The trials of the patriarch Job, 2006 1998 2008 1996 are by many placed about Noah dies, aged 950 years PERIOD OR AGE III. ix. 28, 29. From the call of Abraham to the exodus of Israel from 2083 1921 2107 1897 Egypt, 430 years. Abram called from Chaldean idolatry, in his 75th year - Gen. xii. The covenant of God with Abram, and his name delivered, and Sodom, Go- 2108 1896 Isaac born, Abraham being 100 years old 2133 1871 Abraham offers Isaac as a burnt sacrifice to God xvii.-xix. xxi. xxii. Heb. xi.17-19. James ii. 21. Gen. xxiii. 1. χχίν. xxv. 26. 7, 8. |