[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.
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