to which may be added, the times of the law and Gospel; the time of Christ's birth and death; the time of the conversion of particular persons; and all their times of desertion, temptation, affliction, and comfort; the times of the church's sufferings, both under Rome Pagan and Rome Papal; of the holy city being trodden under foot, of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth, and of their being killed, and their bodies lying unburied, and of their resurrection and ascension to heaven, Re 2:10 Re 11:12 the time of antichrist's reign and ruin, Re 13:5 and of Christ's personal coming, and the day of judgment, 1Ti 6:15 and of his reign on earth for a thousand years, Rev 20:4.
All these are appointed times, and determined by the Creator and Governor of the world:and the bounds of their habitation; where men shall dwell, and how long they shall continue there the age or distinct period of time, in which every man was, or is to come into the world, is fixed and determined by God; nor can, nor does anyone come into the world sooner or later than that time; and also the particular country, city, town, and spot of ground where he shall dwell; and the term of time how long he shall dwell there, and then remove to another place, or be removed by death.
And to this agrees the Ethiopic version, which renders the whole thus, "and hath appointed his times, and his years, how long they shall dwell"; see De 32:8 to which the apostle seems to refer. Caphtor, fol.
37. 2. T. Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 22.