Note 9 — Chapter II · EXTENT OF THE SECOND AGE OF THE WORLD.

We refer here to the date of the division of the earth as determined by Mr. Cuninghame; see the Preface to his “Synopsis of Chronology,” pp. 18–22, and his “Fulness of the Times,” p. 44. In these works, he makes out that the division commenced in A. M. 3081 or B. C. 2398; that it continued during a jubilean period, or forty-nine years; and, of course, that it terminated in A. M. 3130, or B. C. 2349. We confess that we do not see the necessity of allowing so long a period for the division of the earth; and we think it more likely to have been finished than to have been begun at the former date.