[187] Rev. Selah Merrill follows his distinguished countryman Dr. E. Robinson; see “Later Bib. Researches,” 1852, p. 216. [188] i. 33. [189] ii. 31. [190] vi. 26. [191] xii. 36. [192] xiii. 49. [193] See the passages already cited, p. 92. [194] “Ant.,” XIII. v. 11. [195] _Ibid._, XIII. vi. 7; “Wars,” I. ii. 2, V. iv. 1. [196] “Ant.,” XV. xi. 5. [197] The name _Makkabi_ (“hammerer”), applied to the third brother Judas. His ancestor Ḥasmon (“Ant.,” XII. vi. 1) was of the priestly family of Johoiarib, the first of the twenty-four courses (1 Chron. xxiv. 7). [198] 1 Macc. iv. 38. [199] Mishnah, _Middoth_, i. 6. [200] 1 Macc. vi. 48, 49, 53, 62. [201] 1 Macc. vii. 1–47. [202] Alcimus, however, is said (1 Macc. ix. 54) to have pulled down the inner wall of the sanctuary, and the “works of the prophets”--probably the walls of the courts erected by Zerubbabel in the days of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah. [203] 1 Macc. ix. 15; “Ant.,” XII. x. 2, xi. 1. [204] 1 Macc. ix. 52. [205] 1 Macc. ix. 64, x. 1, 21; “Ant.,” XIII. i. 4–6, ii. 1. [206] 1 Macc. x. 67; “Ant.,” XIII. iv. 9. [207] “Ant.,” XIII. v. 11.; 1 Macc. xii. 36–7. The Akra garrison had given hostages in 152 B. C. (1 Mace. x. 9), and made peace in 147 B. C. (xi. 51.) [208] 1 Macc. xiii. 24; “Ant.,” XIII. vi. 4, 5, 6. [209] 1 Macc. xiii. 42. Simon’s son, John Hyrcanus, is called “High-priest and Uniter [_ḥabbar_] of the Jews” on his coins. [210] 1 Macc. xiv. 28. [211] 1 Macc. xv. 6. [212] A copper coin reads “Simon, Prince of Israel,” with “First year of redemption of Israel.” [213] 1 Macc. xiv. 36, 37. [214] “Ant.,” XIII. viii. 2–4. [215] _Ibid._, XIII. xi. 1. [216] See De Saulcy, “Numismatique Judaïque,” 1854, pp. 64–74; Madden, “Jewish Coinage,” 1864, pp. 61–70. [217] Josephus, “Ant.,” XIII. xiii. 5, xiv. 2. In Mishnah, _Sukkah_, iv. 9, the same story is told of a priest who was pelted to death. [218] “Wars,” V. vii 3. [219] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., pp. 413–16. [220] See 1 Chron. xxiv. 15. [221] Tal. Bab., _Sanhed._, 21 _b_, 22 _a_. [222] Sir C. Wilson, “Ord. Survey Notes,” 1865, p. 64, plate xxiv. fig. 4. [223] Josephus, “Ant.,” XIII. v. 9, xvi. 1. [224] _Ibid._, XIV. i. 3, ii. 1, 2. [225] _Ibid._, XIV. iv. 1–2. CHAPTER VI HEROD THE GREAT The headless corpse of Pompey was tossing in the waves, off the coast of Egypt, fifteen years after his bloody conquest of Jerusalem, “and there was none to bury him because he had scorned Him with dishonour: he remembered not that he was man, and considered not what was to come. He said, I will be lord of land and sea, and he knew not that God is great, mighty in His great power.”[226] It is thus that a Jewish psalmist of Herod’s time draws the moral of vengeance on the desecrator of the Holy of Holies.