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Show DATE OFTHE CRUCIFIXION. The date of our Savior's crucifixion crucifix-ion is a subject of much dispute to which some people attach considerable consid-erable importance. For their benefit bene-fit we clip the following frm an eastern exchange: "Herr Flab, the German savant, in a work recently published, shows that there was a total eclipse of the moon concomitantly with the earthquake earth-quake that occured when Julius Csar was assassinated, on the 15th of March, B. C. 44- ' He has calculated cal-culated back the Jewish calendar to A. D. 31, and the result of his researches re-searches fully confirms the facts recorded re-corded by the Evangelists of the wonderful physical events that ac companied the crucifixion. Astronomical Astro-nomical calculations prove without a shadow of a doubt that on the 14th day of the Jewish month Nisan, (April 6th), there was a total eclipse of the sun, which was accompanied in all probability, by the earthquake when the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the tOD to the bottom, and the earth did quake and rocks were rent. Matt. 97:5 1. St. Luke describes the eclipse in these words: "And it was about the sixth hour, (i noon), and there was darkness over all the land till about tbe ninth hour," (3 o'clock). Luke 13:14. This mode of reckoning corresponds perfectly with the results of another calculation our author made by reckoning backwards from the great OtOTtwro April int., 1 81. t Rowing for the difference between the old style which also gives April 6th as the date of the new moon in the year A. D. 31, asthevernil equinox of that year fell on March 35 th, and the Jews ate their Easter -lamb, and celebrated their Erib Pasah or Feast of the Passover, on the following new moon, it is clear April 6th was identical with Nisan 14th of the Jewish Jew-ish calendar; which, moreover, was on a Friday, the Para skeve, or day of preparation for the Sabbath, and this agrees with the Hebrew Talmud. Thus by the united testimony of astronomy, as-tronomy, tradition, and Biblical history, there can be but little doubt that the date of the Crucifixion was on April 6th, in the year 31. |