Commentary
A Collection of Authentick Records Belonging to the Old and New Testament
William Whiston
William Whiston’s collection of documents he held to be authentic records of the Old and New Testament, translated into English (1727–1728). In Part I a note on the seventh millenary ends the world’s six thousand years at the equinox of 1517, or in 1766 by the Samaritan count.
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Edition and location
William Whiston, A Collection of Authentick Records Belonging to the Old and New Testament, Part I (London: Printed for the Author, MDCCXXVII [1727]), pp. 462–464, the N.B. from “N. B. Since we have a little above met with” to “Essay on the O. T. pag. 21, 22.” (Internet Archive bim_eighteenth-century_a-collection-of-authenti_1727_1, leaves n465–n467). Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
pp. 462–464