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    ef the& places were conquered by the successors df Hyrcamis . His $ oa Aristobulus judai » ed Ituraea , of whi < jh probably Ha ^ drach was a part ; and the -reduction of the neighbouring countries , and their incorporation with the theocracy , proceeded exactly according to the plan laid dovfrn in the oraicle . ( See the detail givfen above , ) Having now the points to the outside of which the date of this oracle cannot be referred * determined

    by the text itself , in the transition which it makes fr 6 m the victories over Idumea and Samaria to similar thfeocratical , tx * ploits , our conjectures as to the exact time when it was written are confined to a small field . It eatinot be placed so low down

    as the time of Hyrcarcus II . The conquests in Ituraea , &e could then he spoken of only as things past , nor could the en * trance of a king alluded tt > > Zecti ; ix . 9 ; be expected , at a time when the nation had no king , but 6 nly a sacerdotal regency , Hyrcanus I . after he had judaifced Samaria and Idumea , ruled his states in a wise , equitable , and peaceful union . Hi *

    successor ' s first act , however , was to conquer and circumcise the Iturseans . One of these two suppositions , therefore , must be adopted : Either the orsele was written in the time of Hyrcanus I . &nd the anonymous prophet meant to rouse him from

    his long depose ( he spent the last twerity-five of the thirty-one years of his reign in profound peace : ) or immediately after his death , and was intended to require , from vAristobulus that he should march against Itursest ( Hadrach . ) The first period is the more probable one . It is well fcnowni that the aricidnt Hebrew oracles frequentlvoon tarn politico-teligicALis , i . e . th&o eratical counsels and injunctions , and then paint the effects

    of compliance with therto as if actually existing . It was fot Kyrcanus to consider , whether he would delay to conform td this prophetical advice ; but the prophet , who was averse t 6 delay , had introduced his oracle in such a manner as to repre ^ sent that extension of the judaizing theocracy as what migtytt be effected as soon as it was attempted , and-then goes on , and

    anticipates , as the consequence of it , the return of Hyrcanus to enjoy perfect tranquillity . Ver ^ p . This peaceful return fa exactly such as could have been expected only from Hyrcanus I . supposing him to have fulfilled the other parts of the oracle . His successor Aristobulus , as soon as he assumed the

    crown ( 481 years after the return from Babylon , ) shewed hitn * - self not to be p'ny . Ant xiii . iQ . 454 [ 588 . ] He murdered his mother and his brother Antigonus , whom he best loved 1 , and also many of the Jews at the feast of tabernacles , &c . ; and his natural ETriemei ^ , praised by Josephus and Timageuls , was very problematical during his reign of orte year . From Hyrcanus I . on the contrary , it was to be expected that , even in

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/33/