Excerpt from Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford; With Copious Notes M. Faa de Bruns has included Noah alone with his 3 sons and their wives, which is obviously wrong, according to the Bible and the multiplication of the human race but at the close of 4200, (the number of the years from the Flood) the increase is so rapid that the substitution of the real number, 6, does not make a difference (prof. Price tells me) of more than thirty five years 'and 25 days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.