To the Editor of the Dean Six,—It_wonld be a pity to waste TONE, fisce and my own time in criticising it. MoClatchie's letter which appeared in the Herald of 2ist November. There is one sentence in that letter, however, which, for truth's sake, must not allowed to pass in silence, It is this, "The dates from Noah to Isaac in the post-dilwvian Chronology (which is the subject under consideration) precisely coincide with the statements of our Hebrew text."
I presume Mr. McClatchio meant to say that this precise coincidence "our Hebrew text,"
Samaritan, Of course, Mr. McOlatchie is not ''a careless writer." Now, Mr.Ed., the above statement of Mr. McClatchie's positively untrue. To prove this, will you kindly insert the following table of dates, which I take from Davidson's Bib. Cut. p. 85.
889893928883 8
88°93 88a 2 2
88 '8 3 8882 8
3 8828855858 2 82 i 88 888882
2 88 '88 8822 2
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.