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region about Jerusalem where or. [our] Savr [Savior] suff'red & that therefore it was not an ecclipse of ye Sun for wch ye Authorities are not so great as at first they appear to be, And herein I would not be thought to derogate from ye truth or ye wonder of this darkness. The truth is sufficiently attested or born witnes to by other Authority if there were any need of ym after this most express testimony of ye holy Evangalist I read in a very good Au -thour that Phlegon Trallianus ye Libertus or freeman of Augustus (say some) of Adrian say others wm [whom] my Author cals ye most accurate of all chronographers, relates how yt in ye 4th year of ye 210th Olympiad there was such an ecclips of ye Sun as no age ever had seen, & ty it may accom -panied wth a terrible earthquake, now this year being ye 18th of Tiberius wherein X [Christ ]was crucified, he must needs (as he inferrs) speak of yt darkness here men[t]iond. I confes this is not a very pressing argumt & I have not means wth yt small collection of books I have to trans so full an answer to it, as I would but I say yt less weight upon it because 'tis slighted by the learned Mr Gregory of X'church [Christchurch] in ye Preface to his works, besides this Heathen wee have ye testi -monies of Euselius, Lucian ye Preslyter of Antioch & Tattullian who all appeal to ye Hathens & their Annually for ye undoubted truth of this matter. Neither is ye wonder of it less, if ye darknes (as I understand it) was particular to Judea, for who but the God