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<h2> CHAPTER 8. </h2>
<p>How Caesar Raised Banks Round About The Upper City [Mount<br/>
Zion] And When They Were Completed, Gave Orders That The<br/>
Machines Should Be Brought. He Then Possessed Himself Of The<br/>
Whole City.<br/></p>
<p>1. Now when Caesar perceived that the upper city was so steep that it
could not possibly be taken without raising banks against it, he
distributed the several parts of that work among his army, and this on the
twentieth day of the month Lous [Ab]. Now the carriage of the materials
was a difficult task, since all the trees, as I have already told you,
that were about the city, within the distance of a hundred furlongs, had
their branches cut off already, in order to make the former banks. The
works that belonged to the four legions were erected on the west side of
the city, over against the royal palace; but the whole body of the
auxiliary troops, with the rest of the multitude that were with them,
[erected their banks] at the Xystus, whence they reached to the bridge,
and that tower of Simon which he had built as a citadel for himself
against John, when they were at war one with another.</p>
<p>2. It was at this time that the commanders of the Idumeans got together
privately, and took counsel about surrendering up themselves to the
Romans. Accordingly, they sent five men to Titus, and entreated him to
give them his right hand for their security. So Titus thinking that the
tyrants would yield, if the Idumeans, upon whom a great part of the war
depended, were once withdrawn from them, after some reluctancy and delay,
complied with them, and gave them security for their lives, and sent the
five men back. But as these Idumeans were preparing to march out, Simon
perceived it, and immediately slew the five men that had gone to Titus,
and took their commanders, and put them in prison, of whom the most
eminent was Jacob, the son of Sosas; but as for the multitude of the
Idumeans, who did not at all know what to do, now their commanders were
taken from them, he had them watched, and secured the walls by a more
numerous garrison, Yet could not that garrison resist those that were
deserting; for although a great number of them were slain, yet were the
deserters many more in number. They were all received by the Romans,
because Titus himself grew negligent as to his former orders for killing
them, and because the very soldiers grew weary of killing them, and
because they hoped to get some money by sparing them; for they left only
the populace, and sold the rest of the multitude, <SPAN href="#link6note-28"
name="link6noteref-28" id="link6noteref-28">28</SPAN> with their wives and
children, and every one of them at a very low price, and that because such
as were sold were very many, and the buyers were few: and although Titus
had made proclamation beforehand, that no deserter should come alone by
himself, that so they might bring out their families with them, yet did he
receive such as these also. However, he set over them such as were to
distinguish some from others, in order to see if any of them deserved to
be punished. And indeed the number of those that were sold was immense;
but of the populace above forty thousand were saved, whom Caesar let go
whither every one of them pleased.</p>
<p>3. But now at this time it was that one of the priests, the son of
Thebuthus, whose name was Jesus, upon his having security given him, by
the oath of Caesar, that he should be preserved, upon condition that he
should deliver to him certain of the precious things that had been
reposited in the temple <SPAN href="#link6note-29" name="link6noteref-29" id="link6noteref-29">29</SPAN> came out of it, and delivered him from the
wall of the holy house two candlesticks, like to those that lay in the
holy house, with tables, and cisterns, and vials, all made of solid gold,
and very heavy. He also delivered to him the veils and the garments, with
the precious stones, and a great number of other precious vessels that
belonged to their sacred worship. The treasurer of the temple also, whose
name was Phineas, was seized on, and showed Titus the coats and girdles of
the priests, with a great quantity of purple and scarlet, which were there
reposited for the uses of the veil, as also a great deal of cinnamon and
cassia, with a large quantity of other sweet spices, <SPAN href="#link6note-30" name="link6noteref-30" id="link6noteref-30">30</SPAN>
which used to be mixed together, and offered as incense to God every day.
A great many other treasures were also delivered to him, with sacred
ornaments of the temple not a few; which things thus delivered to Titus
obtained of him for this man the same pardon that he had allowed to such
as deserted of their own accord.</p>
<p>4. And now were the banks finished on the seventh day of the month
Gorpieus, [Elul,] in eighteen days' time, when the Romans brought their
machines against the wall. But for the seditious, some of them, as
despairing of saving the city, retired from the wall to the citadel;
others of them went down into the subterranean vaults, though still a
great many of them defended themselves against those that brought the
engines for the battery; yet did the Romans overcome them by their number
and by their strength; and, what was the principal thing of all, by going
cheerfully about their work, while the Jews were quite dejected, and
become weak. Now as soon as a part of the wall was battered down, and
certain of the towers yielded to the impression of the battering rams,
those that opposed themselves fled away, and such a terror fell upon the
tyrants, as was much greater than the occasion required; for before the
enemy got over the breach they were quite stunned, and were immediately
for flying away. And now one might see these men, who had hitherto been so
insolent and arrogant in their wicked practices, to be cast down and to
tremble, insomuch that it would pity one's heart to observe the change
that was made in those vile persons. Accordingly, they ran with great
violence upon the Roman wall that encompassed them, in order to force away
those that guarded it, and to break through it, and get away. But when
they saw that those who had formerly been faithful to them had gone away,
[as indeed they were fled whithersoever the great distress they were in
persuaded them to flee,] as also when those that came running before the
rest told them that the western wall was entirely overthrown, while others
said the Romans were gotten in, and others that they were near, and
looking out for them, which were only the dictates of their fear, which
imposed upon their sight, they fell upon their face, and greatly lamented
their own mad conduct; and their nerves were so terribly loosed, that they
could not flee away. And here one may chiefly reflect on the power of God
exercised upon these wicked wretches, and on the good fortune of the
Romans; for these tyrants did now wholly deprive themselves of the
security they had in their own power, and came down from those very towers
of their own accord, wherein they could have never been taken by force,
nor indeed by any other way than by famine. And thus did the Romans, when
they had taken such great pains about weaker walls, get by good fortune
what they could never have gotten by their engines; for three of these
towers were too strong for all mechanical engines whatsoever, concerning
which we have treated above.</p>
<p>5. So they now left these towers of themselves, or rather they were
ejected out of them by God himself, and fled immediately to that valley
which was under Siloam, where they again recovered themselves out of the
dread they were in for a while, and ran violently against that part of the
Roman wall which lay on that side; but as their courage was too much
depressed to make their attacks with sufficient force, and their power was
now broken with fear and affliction, they were repulsed by the guards, and
dispersing themselves at distances from each other, went down into the
subterranean caverns. So the Romans being now become masters of the walls,
they both placed their ensigns upon the towers, and made joyful
acclamations for the victory they had gained, as having found the end of
this war much lighter than its beginning; for when they had gotten upon
the last wall, without any bloodshed, they could hardly believe what they
found to be true; but seeing nobody to oppose them, they stood in doubt
what such an unusual solitude could mean. But when they went in numbers
into the lanes of the city with their swords drawn, they slew those whom
they overtook without and set fire to the houses whither the Jews were
fled, and burnt every soul in them, and laid waste a great many of the
rest; and when they were come to the houses to plunder them, they found in
them entire families of dead men, and the upper rooms full of dead
corpses, that is, of such as died by the famine; they then stood in a
horror at this sight, and went out without touching any thing. But
although they had this commiseration for such as were destroyed in that
manner, yet had they not the same for those that were still alive, but
they ran every one through whom they met with, and obstructed the very
lanes with their dead bodies, and made the whole city run down with blood,
to such a degree indeed that the fire of many of the houses was quenched
with these men's blood. And truly so it happened, that though the slayers
left off at the evening, yet did the fire greatly prevail in the night;
and as all was burning, came that eighth day of the month Gorpieus [Elul]
upon Jerusalem, a city that had been liable to so many miseries during
this siege, that, had it always enjoyed as much happiness from its first
foundation, it would certainly have been the envy of the world. Nor did it
on any other account so much deserve these sore misfortunes, as by
producing such a generation of men as were the occasions of this its
overthrow.</p>
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<h2> CHAPTER 9. </h2>
<p>What Injunctions Caesar Gave When He Was Come Within The<br/>
City. The Number Of The Captives And Of Those That Perished<br/>
In The Siege; As Also Concerning Those That Had Escaped Into<br/>
The Subterranean Caverns, Among Whom Were The Tyrants Simon<br/>
And John Themselves.<br/></p>
<p>1. Now when Titus was come into this [upper] city, he admired not only
some other places of strength in it, but particularly those strong towers
which the tyrants in their mad conduct had relinquished; for when he saw
their solid altitude, and the largeness of their several stones, and the
exactness of their joints, as also how great was their breadth, and how
extensive their length, he expressed himself after the manner following:
"We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war, and it was no
other than God who ejected the Jews out of these fortifications; for what
could the hands of men or any machines do towards overthrowing these
towers?" At which time he had many such discourses to his friends; he also
let such go free as had been bound by the tyrants, and were left in the
prisons. To conclude, when he entirely demolished the rest of the city,
and overthrew its walls, he left these towers as a monument of his good
fortune, which had proved his auxiliaries, and enabled him to take what
could not otherwise have been taken by him.</p>
<p>2. And now, since his soldiers were already quite tired with killing men,
and yet there appeared to be a vast multitude still remaining alive,
Caesar gave orders that they should kill none but those that were in arms,
and opposed them, but should take the rest alive. But, together with those
whom they had orders to slay, they slew the aged and the infirm; but for
those that were in their flourishing age, and who might be useful to them,
they drove them together into the temple, and shut them up within the
walls of the court of the women; over which Caesar set one of his
freed-men, as also Fronto, one of his own friends; which last was to
determine every one's fate, according to his merits. So this Fronto slew
all those that had been seditious and robbers, who were impeached one by
another; but of the young men he chose out the tallest and most beautiful,
and reserved them for the triumph; and as for the rest of the multitude
that were above seventeen years old, he put them into bonds, and sent them
to the Egyptian mines <SPAN href="#link6note-31" name="link6noteref-31" id="link6noteref-31">31</SPAN> Titus also sent a great number into the
provinces, as a present to them, that they might be destroyed upon their
theatres, by the sword and by the wild beasts; but those that were under
seventeen years of age were sold for slaves. Now during the days wherein
Fronto was distinguishing these men, there perished, for want of food,
eleven thousand; some of whom did not taste any food, through the hatred
their guards bore to them; and others would not take in any when it was
given them. The multitude also was so very great, that they were in want
even of corn for their sustenance.</p>
<p>3. Now the number <SPAN href="#link6note-32" name="link6noteref-32" id="link6noteref-32">32</SPAN> of those that were carried captive during this
whole war was collected to be ninety-seven thousand; as was the number of
those that perished during the whole siege eleven hundred thousand, the
greater part of whom were indeed of the same nation [with the citizens of
Jerusalem], but not belonging to the city itself; for they were come up
from all the country to the feast of unleavened bread, and were on a
sudden shut up by an army, which, at the very first, occasioned so great a
straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon
them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed them more suddenly.
And that this city could contain so many people in it, is manifest by that
number of them which was taken under Cestius, who being desirous of
informing Nero of the power of the city, who otherwise was disposed to
contemn that nation, entreated the high priests, if the thing were
possible, to take the number of their whole multitude. So these high
priests, upon the coming of that feast which is called the Passover, when
they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour till the eleventh, but so
that a company not less than ten <SPAN href="#link6note-33"
name="link6noteref-33" id="link6noteref-33">33</SPAN> belong to every
sacrifice, [for it is not lawful for them to feast singly by themselves,]
and many of us are twenty in a company, found the number of sacrifices was
two hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred; which, upon the allowance
of no more than ten that feast together, amounts to two millions seven
hundred thousand and two hundred persons that were pure and holy; for as
to those that have the leprosy, or the gonorrhea, or women that have their
monthly courses, or such as are otherwise polluted, it is not lawful for
them to be partakers of this sacrifice; nor indeed for any foreigners
neither, who come hither to worship.</p>
<p>4. Now this vast multitude is indeed collected out of remote places, but
the entire nation was now shut up by fate as in prison, and the Roman army
encompassed the city when it was crowded with inhabitants. Accordingly,
the multitude of those that therein perished exceeded all the destructions
that either men or God ever brought upon the world; for, to speak only of
what was publicly known, the Romans slew some of them, some they carried
captives, and others they made a search for under ground, and when they
found where they were, they broke up the ground and slew all they met
with. There were also found slain there above two thousand persons, partly
by their own hands, and partly by one another, but chiefly destroyed by
the famine; but then the ill savor of the dead bodies was most offensive
to those that lighted upon them, insomuch that some were obliged to get
away immediately, while others were so greedy of gain, that they would go
in among the dead bodies that lay on heaps, and tread upon them; for a
great deal of treasure was found in these caverns, and the hope of gain
made every way of getting it to be esteemed lawful. Many also of those
that had been put in prison by the tyrants were now brought out; for they
did not leave off their barbarous cruelty at the very last: yet did God
avenge himself upon them both, in a manner agreeable to justice. As for
John, he wanted food, together with his brethren, in these caverns, and
begged that the Romans would now give him their right hand for his
security, which he had often proudly rejected before; but for Simon, he
struggled hard with the distress he was in, fill he was forced to
surrender himself, as we shall relate hereafter; so he was reserved for
the triumph, and to be then slain; as was John condemned to perpetual
imprisonment. And now the Romans set fire to the extreme parts of the
city, and burnt them down, and entirely demolished its walls.</p>
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<h2> CHAPTER 10. </h2>
<p>That Whereas The City Of Jerusalem Had Been Five Times Taken<br/>
Formerly, This Was The Second Time Of Its Desolation. A<br/>
Brief Account Of Its History.<br/></p>
<p>1. And thus was Jerusalem taken, in the second year of the reign of
Vespasian, on the eighth day of the month Gorpeius [Elul]. It had been
taken five <SPAN href="#link6note-34" name="link6noteref-34" id="link6noteref-34">34</SPAN> times before, though this was the second time
of its desolation; for Shishak, the king of Egypt, and after him
Antiochus, and after him Pompey, and after them Sosius and Herod, took the
city, but still preserved it; but before all these, the king of Babylon
conquered it, and made it desolate, one thousand four hundred and
sixty-eight years and six months after it was built. But he who first
built it. Was a potent man among the Canaanites, and is in our own tongue
called [Melchisedek], the Righteous King, for such he really was; on which
account he was [there] the first priest of God, and first built a temple
[there], and called the city Jerusalem, which was formerly called Salem.
However, David, the king of the Jews, ejected the Canaanites, and settled
his own people therein. It was demolished entirely by the Babylonians,
four hundred and seventy-seven years and six months after him. And from
king David, who was the first of the Jews who reigned therein, to this
destruction under Titus, were one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine
years; but from its first building, till this last destruction, were two
thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years; yet hath not its great
antiquity, nor its vast riches, nor the diffusion of its nation over all
the habitable earth, nor the greatness of the veneration paid to it on a
religious account, been sufficient to preserve it from being destroyed.
And thus ended the siege of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>WAR BOOK 6 FOOTNOTES <SPAN name="link6note-1" id="link6note-1">
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<p class="foot">
1 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-1">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Reland notes here, very
pertinently, that the tower of Antonia stood higher than the floor of the
temple or court adjoining to it; and that accordingly they descended
thence into the temple, as Josephus elsewhere speaks also. See Book VI.
ch. 2. sect. 5.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-2" id="link6note-2">
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<p class="foot">
2 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-2">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ In this speech of Titus we
may clearly see the notions which the Romans then had of death, and of the
happy state of those who died bravely in war, and the contrary estate of
those who died ignobly in their beds by sickness. Reland here also
produces two parallel passages, the one out of Atonia Janus Marcellinus,
concerning the Alani, lib. 31, that "they judged that man happy who laid
down his life in battle;" the other of Valerius Maximus, lib. 11. ch. 6,
who says, "that the Cimbri and Celtiberi exulted for joy in the army, as
being to go out of the world gloriously and happily."]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-3" id="link6note-3">
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<p class="foot">
3 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-3">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ See the note on p. 809.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-4" id="link6note-4">
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<p class="foot">
4 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-4">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ No wonder that this
Julian, who had so many nails in his shoes, slipped upon the pavement of
the temple, which was smooth, and laid with marble of different colors.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-5" id="link6note-5">
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<p class="foot">
5 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-5">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This was a remarkable day
indeed, the seventeenth of Panemuns. [Footnote Tamuz,] A.D. 70, when,
according to Daniel's prediction, six hundred and six years before, the
Romans "in half a week caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease," Daniel
9:27. For from the month of February, A.D. 66, about which time Vespasian
entered on this war, to this very time, was just three years and a half.
See Bishop Lloyd's Tables of Chronology, published by Mr. Marshall, on
this year. Nor is it to be omitted, what year nearly confirms this
duration of the war, that four years before the war begun was somewhat
above seven years five months before the destruction of Jerusalem, ch. 5.
sect. 3.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-6" id="link6note-6">
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<p class="foot">
6 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-6">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ The same that in the New
Testament is always so called, and was then the common language of the
Jews in Judea, which was the Syriac dialect.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-7" id="link6note-7">
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<p class="foot">
7 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-7">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Our present copies of the
Old Testament want this encomium upon king Jechoniah or Jehoiachim, which
it seems was in Josephus's copy.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-8" id="link6note-8">
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<p class="foot">
8 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-8">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Of this oracle, see the
note on B. IV. ch. 6. sect. 3. Josephus, both here and in many places
elsewhere, speaks so, that it is most evident he was fully satisfied that
God was on the Romans' side, and made use of them now for the destruction
of that wicked nation of the Jews; which was for certain the true state of
this matter, as the prophet Daniel first, and our Savior himself
afterwards, had clearly foretold. See Lit. Accompl. of Proph. p. 64, etc.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-9" id="link6note-9">
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<p class="foot">
9 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-9">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Josephus had before told
us, B. V. ch. 13. sect. 1, that this fourth son of Matthias ran away to
the Romans "before" his father's and brethren's slaughter, and not "after"
it, as here. The former account is, in all probability, the truest; for
had not that fourth son escaped before the others were caught and put to
death, he had been caught and put to death with them. This last account,
therefore, looks like an instance of a small inadvertence of Josephus in
the place before us.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-10" id="link6note-10">
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<p class="foot">
10 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-10">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Of this partition-wall
separating Jews and Gentiles, with its pillars and inscription, see the
description of the temples, ch. 15.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-11" id="link6note-11">
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<p class="foot">
11 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-11">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ That these seditious
Jews were the direct occasions of their own destruction, and of the
conflagration of their city and temple, and that Titus earnestly and
constantly labored to save both, is here and every where most evident in
Josephus.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-12" id="link6note-12">
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<p class="foot">
12 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-12">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Court of the Gentiles.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-13" id="link6note-13">
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<p class="foot">
13 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-13">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Court of Israel.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-14" id="link6note-14">
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<p class="foot">
14 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-14">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Of the court of the
Gentiles.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-15" id="link6note-15">
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<p class="foot">
15 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-15">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ What Josephus observes
here, that no parallel examples had been recorded before this time of such
sieges, wherein mothers were forced by extremity of famine to eat their
own children, as had been threatened to the Jews in the law of Moses, upon
obstinate disobedience, and more than once fulfilled, [see my Boyle's
Lectures, p. 210-214,] is by Dr. Hudson supposed to have had two or three
parallel examples in later ages. He might have had more examples, I
suppose, of persons on ship-board, or in a desert island, casting lots for
each others' bodies; but all this was only in cases where they knew of no
possible way to avoid death themselves but by killing and eating others.
Whether such examples come up to the present case may be doubted. The
Romans were not only willing, but very desirous, to grant those Jews in
Jerusalem both their lives and their liberties, and to save both their
city and their temple. But the zealots, the rubbers, and the seditious
would hearken to no terms of submission. They voluntarily chose to reduce
the citizens to that extremity, as to force mothers to this unnatural
barbarity, which, in all its circumstances, has not, I still suppose, been
hitherto paralleled among the rest of mankind.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-16" id="link6note-16">
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<p class="foot">
16 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-16">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ These steps to the altar
of burnt-offering seem here either an improper and inaccurate expression
of Josephus, since it was unlawful to make ladder steps; [see description
of the temples, ch. 13., and note on Antiq. B. IV. ch. 8. sect. 5;] or
else those steps or stairs we now use were invented before the days of
Herod the Great, and had been here built by him; though the later Jews
always deny it, and say that even Herod's altar was ascended to by an
acclivity only.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-17" id="link6note-17">
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<p class="foot">
17 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-17">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This Perea, if the word
be not mistaken in the copies, cannot well be that Perea which was beyond
Jordan, whose mountains were at a considerable distance from Jordan, and
much too remote from Jerusalem to join in this echo at the conflagration
of the temple; but Perea must be rather some mountains beyond the brook
Cedron, as was the Mount of Olives, or some others about such a distance
from Jerusalem; which observation is so obvious, that it is a wonder our
commentators here take no notice of it.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-18" id="link6note-18">
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<p class="foot">
18 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-18">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Reland I think here
judges well, when he interprets these spikes [Footnote of those that stood
on the top of the holy house] with sharp points; they were fixed into
lead, to prevent the birds from sitting there, and defiling the holy
house; for such spikes there were now upon it, as Josephus himself hath
already assured us, B. V. ch. 5. sect. 6.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-19" id="link6note-19">
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<p class="foot">
19 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-19">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Reland here takes
notice, that these Jews, who had despised the true Prophet, were
deservedly abused and deluded by these false ones.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-20" id="link6note-20">
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<p class="foot">
20 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-20">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Whether Josephus means
that this star was different from that comet which lasted a whole year, I
cannot certainly determine. His words most favor their being different one
from another.]</p>
<p><SPAN name="link6note-21" id="link6note-21">
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<p class="foot">
21 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-21">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Since Josephus still
uses the Syro-Macedonian month Xanthicus for the Jewish month Nisan, this
eighth, or, as Nicephorus reads it, this ninth of Xanthicus or Nisan was
almost a week before the passover, on the fourteenth; about which time we
learn from St. John that many used to go "out of the country to Jerusalem
to purify themselves," John 11:55, with 12:1; in agreement with Josephus
also, B. V. ch. 3. sect. 1. And it might well be, that in the sight of
these this extraordinary light might appear.]</p>
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22 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-22">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This here seems to be
the court of the priests.]</p>
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23 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-23">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Both Reland and
Havercamp in this place alter the natural punctuation and sense of
Josephus, and this contrary to the opinion of Valesilus and Dr. Hudson,
lest Josephus should say that the Jews built booths or tents within the
temple at the feast of tabernacles; which the later Rabbins will not allow
to have been the ancient practice: but then, since it is expressly told us
in Nehemiah, ch. 8:16, that in still elder times "the Jews made booths in
the courts of the house of God" at that festival, Josephus may well be
permitted to say the same. And indeed the modern Rabbins are of very small
authority in all such matters of remote antiquity.]</p>
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24 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-24">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Take Havercamp's note
here: "This [says he] is a remarkable place; and Tertullian truly says in
his Apologetic, ch. 16. p. 162, that the entire religion of the Roman camp
almost consisted in worshipping the ensigns, in swearing by the ensigns,
and in preferring the ensigns before all the [other] gods." See what
Havercamp says upon that place of Tertullian.]</p>
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25 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-25">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This declaring Titus
imperator by the soldiers, upon such signal success, and the slaughter of
such a vast number of enemies, was according to the usual practice of the
Romans in like cases, as Reland assures us on this place.]</p>
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26 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-26">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ The Jews of later times
agree with Josephus, that there were hiding-places or secret chambers
about the holy house, as Reland here informs us, where he thinks he has
found these very walls described by them.]</p>
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27 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-27">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ Spanheim notes here,
that the Romans used to permit the Jews to collect their sacred tribute,
and send it to Jerusalem; of which we have had abundant evidence in
Josephus already on other occasions.]</p>
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28 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-28">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This innumerable
multitude of Jews that were "sold" by the Romans was an eminent completion
of God's ancient threatening by Moses, that if they apostatized from the
obedience to his laws, they should be "sold unto their enemies for
bond-men and bond-women," Deuteronomy 28;68. See more especially the note
on ch. 9. sect. 2. But one thing is here peculiarly remarkable, that Moses
adds, Though they should be "sold" for slaves, yet "no man should buy
them;" i.e. either they should have none to redeem them from this sale
into slavery; or rather, that the slaves to be sold should be more than
were the purchasers for them, and so they should be sold for little or
nothing; which is what Josephus here affirms to have been the case at this
time.]</p>
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29 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-29">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ What became of these
spoils of the temple that escaped the fire, see Josephus himself
hereafter, B. VII. ch. 5. sect. 5, and Reland de Spoliis Templi, p.
129-138.]</p>
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30 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-30">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ These various sorts of
spices, even more than those four which Moses prescribed, Exodus 31:34, we
see were used in their public worship under Herod's temple, particularly
cinnamon and cassia; which Reland takes particular notice of, as agreeing
with the latter testimony of the Talmudists.]</p>
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31 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-31">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ See the several
predictions that the Jews, if they became obstinate in their idolatry and
wickedness, should be sent again or sold into Egypt for their punishment,
Deuteronomy 28:68; Jeremiah 44:7; Hosea 8:13; 9:3; 9:4, 5; 2 Samuel
15:10-13; with Authentic Records, Part I. p. 49, 121; and Reland Painest
And, tom. II. p. 715.]</p>
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32 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-32">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ The whole multitude of
the Jews that were destroyed during the entire seven years before this
time, in all the countries of and bordering on Judea, is summed up by
Archbishop Usher, from Lipsius, out of Josephus, at the year of Christ 70,
and amounts to 1,337,490. Nor could there have been that number of Jews in
Jerusalem to be destroyed in this siege, as will be presently set down by
Josephus, but that both Jews and proselytes of justice were just then come
up out of the other countries of Galilee, Samaria, Judea, and Perea and
other remoter regions, to the passover, in vast numbers, and therein
cooped up, as in a prison, by the Roman army, as Josephus himself well
observes in this and the next section, and as is exactly related
elsewhere, B. V. ch. 3. sect. 1 and ch. 13. sect. 7.]</p>
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33 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-33">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This number of a company
for one paschal lamb, between ten and twenty, agrees exactly with the
number thirteen, at our Savior's last passover. As to the whole number of
the Jews that used to come up to the passover, and eat of it at Jerusalem,
see the note on B. II. ch. 14. sect. 3. This number ought to be here
indeed just ten times the number of the lambs, or just 2,565,[D0, by
Josephus's own reasoning; whereas it is, in his present copies, no less
than 2,700,[D0, which last number is, however, nearest the other number in
the place now cited, which is 3,000,000. But what is here chiefly
remarkable is this, that no foreign nation ever came thus to destroy the
Jews at any of their solemn festivals, from the days of Moses till this
time, but came now upon their apostasy from God, and from obedience to
him. Nor is it possible, in the nature of things, that in any other nation
such vast numbers should be gotten together, and perish in the siege of
any one city whatsoever, as now happened in Jerusalem.]</p>
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34 (<SPAN href="#link6noteref-34">return</SPAN>)<br/> [ This is the proper place
for such as have closely attended to these latter books of the War to
peruse, and that with equal attention, those distinct and plain
predictions of Jesus of Nazareth, in the Gospels thereto relating, as
compared with their exact completions in Josephus's history; upon which
completions, as Dr. Whitby well observes, Annot. on Matthew 24:2, no small
part of the evidence for the truth of the Christian religion does depend;
and as I have step by step compared them together in my Literal
Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies. The reader is to observe further,
that the true reason why I have so seldom taken notice of those
completions in the course of these notes, notwithstanding their being so
very remarkable, and frequently so very obvious, is this, that I had
entirely prevented myself in that treatise beforehand; to which therefore
I must here, once for all, seriously refer every inquisitive reader.
Besides these five here enumerated, who had taken Jerusalem of old,
Josephus, upon further recollection, reckons a sixth, Antiq. B. XII. ch.
1. sect. 1, who should have been here inserted in the second place; I mean
Ptolemy, the son of Lagus.]</p>
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