1. Dated variously as A.D. 30 (Harnack), 33 (Ramsay), 34 (Lightfoot), and 35-6 (C. H. Turner, Hastings’ D.B., art. “Chronology”).
4. Close of the Acts A.D. 59 (Harnack), 61 (Turner), 62 (Ramsay), 63 (Lightfoot).
5. Dict. Christ. Biog.
10. Hastings’ D.B., Ext. 462 b.
13. “Primus e fisco Latinis Græcisque rhetoribus annua centena constituit,” Suet. Vesp. 18.
20. Hastings’ D.B., Ext. 466 b.
22. I have in this section made considerable use of the essay, “On the Personal Character and Credibility of Josephus,” prefixed to Dr. Traill’s translation of the Jewish War—a very judicious estimate.
25. Op. cit. p. 6.
26. § (26) with Appendix, Note II.
29. Phil. iv. 22.
30. Acts xxvi. 26.
31. Traill, op. cit., p. 19.
32. Gen. iii. 15.
38. οἱ ἀρετῆς τι μεταποιούμενοι, II. 51 (Jowett’s translation).
40. See Drüner, Untersuchungen über Josephus (Marburg, 1896), pp. 1-34.
41. e.g. Edersheim.
60. § (45), with Appendix, Note V.
61. Quoted by Edersheim, Dict. Christ. Biog. III. 442 a, note.
62. See Appendix, Note IV.
65. Nero.
66. Lit. “countries.”
67. Beirut.
68. Herod Agrippa II.
69. The word is that rendered in St. Luke’s preface (i. 3) “traced the course of (all things).”
70. Or “has left in writing.”
71. The king’s alleged “culture” here fails him; the Greek is vulgar and obscure. For ἡμᾶς ὅλους, “us all,” perhaps we should read ἡμᾶς ὅλως, “us completely.”
72. Or “not generally known.”
73. Or “the sacred books.”
74. Meaning uncertain; Traill, “paying that compliment to.”
75. Text emended.
76. Perhaps a gloss (omit Latin VS.).
77. Lit. “persons bound in”; cf. Luke xiii. 16.
78. The same word as in Luke xiii. 12 (“art loosed”).
79. Text doubtful.
80. Lit. “foot-bath.”
81. i. e. Ben-hadad, in the LXX “the son of (H)ader.”
82. Ramoth-gilead.
83. Imlah.
84. 1 Kings xxi. 19.
85. 1 Kings xiii. 4. The name Jadaus (or, as the Latin has, Jadon) is unscriptural.
86. Or “lampstand.”
87. Another reading has “silver vessels.”
88. Or “prætor.”
89. By the Jews (B. J. parallel passage).
90. The Herodian family (Idumæans).
91. Text (as read by Niese) doubtful.
92. Or “sessions,” “conventions” (σύνοδοι). “He appointed five councils (or ‘assemblies’, συνέδρια) and distributed the nation into as many portions.”—Ant. (parallel passage).
93. In Egypt, where Antipater had rendered him yeoman service.
94. Or “procurator” (ἐπίτροπος).
95. Lit. “fatherland.”
96. So the MSS; probably we should read “twenty-five.” See Schürer, Jewish People, I. 1. 383, n. 29.
97. Lit. “tyranny.”
99. Apparently Hyrcanus, though Sextus might be the subject.
100. The governor of Syria.
101. Octavius, the future Emperor Augustus.
102. Cf. B. J. I. 226: “It was his son’s power and expectations which brought about Antipater’s end. For Malichus was afraid of these,” etc.
104. Octavius.
105. Octavius.
106. Herod was engaged in fighting the Arabians at the time of the battle of Actium.
107. Reading ἀχώριστον with Havercamp; MSS εὐχάριστον, “grateful” (? = “willingly”).
108. Lit. “many ten thousands of corn.”
109. Conjectural emendation (Hudson), cf. Dio Cassius, 51. 7, and the parallel passage, Ant. XV. 195.
110. Mariamne (Μαριάμμη).
111. Lit. “for us.”
112. The building of Cæsarea and its harbour, etc.
113. Herod’s new name for Samaria.
114. Augustus.
115. Lit. “Trachon.” The three districts correspond approximately to Bashan of the O.T.
116. Ulatha and Paneas N. and N.E. of the Waters of Merom.
117. Text (Niese) uncertain. Most MSS “him”; lit. “mixed him with (? = ‘put him on a level with’) the governors of Syria.”
118. Most MSS read: “even those who were less (or least) honoured (by him).”
119. Lit. “moderation.”
120. The Greek is difficult and the sense a little obscure. The phrase, κακῶν ποριστὴν (lit. “provider of evils,” “purveyor of misfortunes to his victims”), seems to be a reminiscence of Thuc. VIII. 48.
121. The rebuilt city of Samaria.
122. A fortress in Judæa.
123. An elder Alexander.
124. Text doubtful.
125. Reading, with Niese, παραλειπτέον, “thought that none should be left (alive).” MSS παραληπτέον, which Whiston renders “would take no one into partnership with him.”
126. Or perhaps “is superior to all wise calculation.”
127. Adopting the conjecture ὡς νομίζω for ὡς μείζω. The text and meaning of this difficult passage are uncertain.
128. The doctrine of Free-will.
129. Or perhaps “... to the other, (under which) we do not deprive ourselves.”
130. Or “of the actions which he took to protect his life.”
131. The Romana potestas.
132. With special reference to Antipater, Herod’s heir and afterwards his victim.
133. Asphaltophoros (elsewhere Asphaltitis), i.e. the Dead Sea.
134. Gr. “drachmae.” The drachma was nearly the equivalent of the Lat. denarius, in value a little less than the modern “franc.”
135. Or “in all his actions.”
136. In the parallel passage (B.J. I. 660), “I know that the Jews will observe my death as a feast-day.” It has been thought that a festival on the second of the month Shebat, of which the occasion is unrecorded, may have commemorated Herod’s death.
137. Lit. “give your vote.”
138. Or, perhaps, “Their lack of discipline, although they were bold enough (counselled prudence).”
139. Nicolas of Damascus, minister and historian of Herod the Great.
140. Var. lect. “and many (others)” (πολλοὺς); in B.J. Poplas.
141. Augustus.
142. Augustus.
143. Reading ῥοπὴν (conj. Niese). With MS reading τροπὴν, “had been strongly moved” by Nicolaus’s arguments.
144. Augustus.
145. “Two tetrarchies,” B.J. (parallel pass.).
146. Gr. “Trachon.”
147. Gr. “house.”
148. Cæsarea.
149. Samaria.
150. The unit is omitted in the Gr.
151. The unit is omitted in the Gr.
152. Augustus.
153. Or perhaps “the district of A. was annexed and made tributary.”
154. Gr. “house.”
155. The so-called decursus honorum.
156. Augustus.
157. On the east of the Sea of Galilee. In B.J. (parallel pass.) he is called “a Galilæan” as in Acts v. 37.