THE WEEK AS A MEASURE OF TIME.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 352, 2 December 1879, Page 2

THE WEEK AS A MEASURE OF TIME.

The author of the following paper is well-known to many of our readers, and we therefore give it-insertion. We candidly confess that we do not understand it :—

Casuistical arguments and a spirit of contradiction mark the age, and as the Arab proverb runs —" A man is more the child of the age in which he lives than of his father." These arguments, drawn from arithmetical and mechanical principles (because seven is prime to composite 360, and numbers from 1 to 10 divide into 360 without remainder, except seven) effectually demolish and contradict all tlie folly displayed by Proctor in the Contemporary Review of March, 1875, and June, 1879 ; on the Sabbath and "The Origin of the Week," in •'Mosaism and Clrristianity," Gooi Werds, 1869; and "Time and Faith," 2nd vol., in which the most topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy attempts" to explode the week and dissipate the Sabbath Day are exhibited. Beside an utter ignorance that the sixth day Sabbath was a Divine memorial institution of the Exodus, adpointed in that year by the sun and moon, when the .ecclesiastical year of the Hebrews was ordained by the vernal equinox, these phases being exactly repeated in that year, in which the Lord of Life was crucified, thus, the sixth day Memorial Sabbath—all things being then fulfilled—was buriad with Christ, and his resurrection restored to the whole world the original seventh day iv its hallowed versary. This is common sense, and it can be demonstrated by the calendars of those years. As fer the Divine Index Measure and Register, shall it not be said—" For tho hand of this (Divine) Artificer the work shall be commended," for there is no " missing link" nor flaw in the chain of time, or, in other words, God Jehovah has not bungled the measure of that motion of which, as Dionysiua Petavius in the dedication of his ponderous tome on chronology, asserts he is both Inventor et Auctor—" By his word all things consist" (Eccles, 43,26) —" For like as everything that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and thfeend is manifest."

I " Even so also the Times of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonders and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs " (11. Esdras, ix., 5, 6). This year, a.m. 5886—4007 B.C. (a.d. 1879) is also dated by an occupation of Antares by the moon in June, an exhibition of which the Times forewarned the whole of Europe, so that the phenomenon might be watched and admired, as it had not" occurred since a.d. 1819. Again, tkere is a principle in wheel mechanics (see Weale's Rudimentary Treaties, Mechanics, C. Tomlinson, M.A. 1/6) known as the " Hunting Cog," and in the Week Pinion, tho Seventh day cog is the Hunting Cog, and as the calendar of this planet is Jbuilt upon this August number vii., so it is the number 7 which determines the cycle to consist of 10,080 solar tropical years.

Thus the week is a Divine institution, composed on strictly philosophical and scientific principles, and properly described is none other than a Divine index measure and register of motion, and the days are numbered in the original Hebrew texts, in the; cardinals, not, as in our version, in the ordinals, the Hebrew word " Sabbath " is converted and crystallised in the cardinal number " seven, no other period of motion can be logically termed a week. TheHexaemeron is the anti-type of tha first solar week. Now, to discover the use of this Divine index measure and register of motion, and thus appreciate the exquisite simplicity, we Say as follows :—-A.M. 5760 terminated on 'day, six, " Saturday." So did A.D. 1753. These then " level date." a.m. 5760=2 103 796 00 00 a.d. 1753= 640 269 20 37 a.m. 4007=1 463 562 03 23 So Bedford was right and Usher was wrong when he said a.m. 4004. a.m. 5760 W.as leap year, so then must a.d. 1753 be leap-year, not A.D. 1752. The rale of division by 4 and no remainder is as utterly empirical as a calender constructed in defence of every known principle in astronomy is absurd. Absurd because it keeps the minds of people in bondage. The ancient calendars of the whole world recognise those natural epochs, the equinoxes and solstices. It remains for Christendom (?) to be content with the calendar of a pagan, [[unsuccessfully tinkered by a Pope, and cobbled by an imperfectly instructed arithmetician, who was in no sense an astronomer.

ROBERT GREAVES.