The Old and New Testaments connected : in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declensions of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ . I have entered on the writing of any of those works thatI have oflfered to the public ; and I hope I have by all of themin some measure served my generation. But being now bro-ken by age, and the calamitous distemper mentioned in thepreface to the former part of this history, 1 tind myself su-perannuated for any other undertaking, and therefore must,I fear, spend the remainder of my days in a useless state oflife, which to
The Old and New Testaments connected : in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declensions of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ . I have entered on the writing of any of those works thatI have oflfered to the public ; and I hope I have by all of themin some measure served my generation. But being now bro-ken by age, and the calamitous distemper mentioned in thepreface to the former part of this history, 1 tind myself su-perannuated for any other undertaking, and therefore must,I fear, spend the remainder of my days in a useless state oflife, which to me will be the greatest burden of it. But, sinceit is from the hand of God, 1 will comport myself with all pa-tience to submit hereto, till my great change shall come, andGod shall be pleased to call me out of this life into a which I wait with a thorough hope and trust in his greatand infinite mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whombe glory, honour, and praise, for ever and ever. Humphrey Prideaux* Norwich, Jan. 1, 1717-18. _ ^^.uiiiuuu aiexanannum. c Juchasin, Shalsheleth Haccabbalah, and Zemach David. R. A. Levitain Historica Cabbala. Vol. II. 31. THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS CONNECTED, &c, BOOK I. ELEAZAR, the brother of Simon the Just,^ succeededhim in the high-priesthood at Jerusalem, and thereexecuted this office fifteen years.^ But whereas ^[^,^^-Simon the Just had been also president of the sanhe- soier , or national council of the Jews, he was in thislast charge succeeded by Antigonus of Socho, to which hewas recommended by his great learning.*^ For he was aneminent scribe in the law of God, and a great teacher ofrighteousness among the people. And he being the first ofthe Tannaim or Mishnical doctors, from his school all thosehad their original who were afterward called by that these were ail the doctors of the Jewish law from thedeath of Simon the Just to the time that Rabbi Judah Hak-kadosh composed the Mishna. which was about the mid
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