Note 1 — Chapter XXVI · JUSTICE THE AVENGER
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The Talmud.
2 Told by the heathen Plutarch in his Cessation of Oracles.
3 Josephus.—Vita 2.
4 Acts xxv. 16.
5 Greek Anthology.—I. 77.
6 Acts xxiii. 14.
7 Flaccus, pro-Consul of Asia, for example.—Cicero. Pro Flacco.
8 The ancient usage in the Jerusalem synagogues of anathematizing Christ and the Christians is said by some to have originated, not with Simeon, but with his father Gamaliel, a statement scarcely reconcilable with Acts v. 38.
9 A saying of Simeon’s, according to the Talmud.
10 The Talmud.
11 Jos.—Bell. Jud. vi. 5, 3. Tac.—Hist. v. 13. Luke xxi. 11.
12 Zech. xi. 1 was, according to the Talmud, referred by Johanan ben Zacchai to this mysterious opening of the temple doors.
13 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. ii. 15.
14 At this point Florus disappears from history, and therefore from these pages. It is not known what became of him.
15 Acts xxiii. 3.
16 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. ii. 17, 9.
17 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. v. 9, 4.
18 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. ii. 19, 7.
19 So writes Hegesippus, an historian almost contemporary with Bishop Simeon.
20 Josephus actually applies the Messianic prophecies to Vespasian!—Bell. Jud. vi. 5, 4.
21 Tacitus.—Hist. ii. 78.
22 Tacitus.—Hist. iv. 81.
23 Lucem caliganti reddidit mundo—“he restored light to a dark world,” was said of Vespasian.—Jortin—Eccles. Hist. i. 4.
24 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. vi. 5, 3.
25 It is singular that Josephus, who has described the siege in such detail, should have omitted the ceremony of the Evocation, which must have taken place, unless the Romans departed from all precedent.
26 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. v. 9, 4.
27 Eusebius.—Hist. Eccles. iii. 12.
28 More than £5,000 in English currency.
29 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. v. 12.
30 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. v. 13, 7.
31 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. v. 31, 1.
32 Sulpicius Severus (Chron. xxx. 11), who is believed by competent critics to be quoting from a lost portion of the History of Tacitus.
33 Josephus.—Bell. Jud. vi. 4, 3.
34 Dean Milman.—Hist. of Jews. Book xvi.
35 The Talmud.
36 Such is the statement of Epiphanius.
37 Such appears to be the belief of Renan.—Antichrist, xix.
38 Unfortunately for Crispus’ hopes, Domitian, on his accession, put Flavius Clemens to death. The fate of the two sons is unknown.
39 This history, De Judæis, has unfortunately, not come down to us.
40 “Berenicem ab urbe dimisit invitus invitam.”—Suet. in Tit. vii.
41 Satire vi. 156.