Note 14.1 — Chapter XIV · PERSECUTION OF HEROD AGRIPPA THE FIRST.

The inscriptions of these countries fully confirm the indications of Josephus. (Comptes Rendus de l'Acad. des Inscr. I. B. L., 1865. pp. 106, 109.)

[14.2] Josephus, Ant. xix. iv. B. J., ii. xi.

[14.3] Ib. xix. v. i.; vi. i.; B. J., II. xi. 5; Dion Cassius, LX. 8.

[14.4] Dion Cassius, LIX. 24.

[14.5] Jos. Ant. xix. ix. 1.

[14.6] Ibid. XIX. vi. 1, 3; ii. 3, 4; viii. 2; ix. 1.

[14.7] Ibid. XIX. vii. 4.

[14.8] Ibid. XIX. vi. 3.

[14.9] Juvenal, Sat. vi. 158, 159; Persius, Sat. v. 180.

[14.10] Philo. In Flaccum, §5, and following.

[14.11] Jos. Ant. XIX. v. 2, and sequel; xx. vi. 3.; B. J., II. xii. 7. The restrictive measures which he took against the Jews of Rome (Acts xviii. 2; Suetonius Claude, 25; Dion Cassius, LX. 6) were connected with local circumstances.

[14.12] Jos. Ant. xix. vi. 3.

[14.13] Ibid. xix. vii 2; B. J. II. xi. 6; V. iv. 2. Tacitus, Hist. v. 12.

[14.14] Tacitus, Ann. vi. 47.

[14.15] Jos. Ant. XIX. vii. 2; vii. 21; viii. 1; XX. i. 1.

[14.16] Ibid. XIX. viii. 1.

[14.17] Suetonius, Caius, 22, 26, 35; Dion Cassius, lix. 24; lx. 8. Tacitus, Ann. xi. 8. As a type of the part these little Eastern Kings played, study the career of Herod Agrippa I. in Josephus (Ant. xviii. and xix.) Compare Horace, Sat. I. vii.

[14.18] Supra.

[14.19] Acts xii. 3.

[14.20] Ibid. xii. 1, and following.

[14.21] James was in fact beheaded, and not stoned to death.

[14.22] Acts xii. 3, and following.

[14.23] Ibid. xii. 9, 11. The account in the Acts is so lively and just, that it is difficult to find any place in it for any prolonged legendary elaboration.

[14.24] Jos. Ant. xix. viii. 2; Acts xii. 18, 23.

[14.25] Ibid. xix. vii. 4.

[14.26] Acts. xii. 23. Compare 2 Macc. ix. 9; Jos. B. J. I. xxxiii. 5; Talmud of Bab. Sota, 35 a.

[14.27] Jos. Ant. XIX. vi. 1; XX. i. 1, 2.

[14.28] Ibid. xx. v. 2; B. J. ii. xv. 1; xviii. 7, and following; IV. x. 6; V. i. 6; Tacitus, Ann., xv. 28. Hist. i. 11; ii. 79; Suetonius, Vesp. 6; Corpus Inscr. Græc. No. 4957. (cf. ibid. iii. p. 311.)

[14.29] Jos. Ant. XX. i. 3.

[14.30] Ibid. XX. v. 4, B. J. II. xii.

[14.31] Josephus, who relates with so much care, the history of these agitations in all its details, never mixes up the Christians with them.

[14.32] Jos. Against Apion, ii. 39; Dion Cassius, lxvi. 4.

[14.33] Jos., B. J., IV., iv. 3; V., xiii. 6; Suetonius, Aug., 93; Strabo, XVI., ii. 34, 37; Tacitus, Hist., v. 5.

[14.34] Jos., Ant., XIII., ix. 1; xi. 3; xv. 4; XV., vii. 9.

[14.35] Jos., B. J., II., xvii. 10; Vita, 23.

[14.36] Matt, xxiii. 13.

[14.37] Jos., Ant., XX., vii. 1, 3; Compare XVI., vii. 6.

[14.38] Ibid. XX., ii. 4.

[14.39] Ibid. XX, ii. 5, 6; iv. 1.

[14.40] Jos., B. J., II., xx. 2.

[14.41] Seneca, fragment in St. Augustin. De civ. Dei, vi. 11.

[14.42] Jos., Ant., XX., ii.-iv.

[14.43] Tacitus, Ann., xii. 13, 14. The greater part of the names of this] family are Persian.

[14.44] The name of “Helen” proves this. Still, it is remarkable that the Greek does not figure upon the bi-lingual inscription (Syriac and Syro-Chaldaic) of the tomb of a princess of the family, discovered and brought to Paris by M. de Saulcy. See Journal Asiatique, Dec., 1865.

[14.45] Cf. Bereschith rabba, xlvi. 51 d.

[14.46] It is according to all appearances the monument known at this day under the name of “Tomb of the Kings.” See Journal Asiatique, passage cited.

[14.47] Jos., B. J., ii., xix. 2; vi., vi. 4.

[14.48] Talmud of Jerusalem, Peah, 15 b., where there are put into the mouth of one of the Monobaze maxims that exactly recall the Gospel (Matt. vi. 19 and following). Talmud of Bab., Baba Bathra, 11 a; Joma, 37 a; Nazir, 19 b; Schabbath, 68 b; Sifra, 70 a; Bereschith rabba, xlvi., fol. 51 d.

[14.49] Moses of Khorene, ii. 35; Orose, vii. 6.

[14.50] Luke, xxi. 21.

[14.51] Τὰ πάτρια ἔθη, an expression so familiar with Josephus, when he defends the position of the Jews in the pagan world.