20 Eupator means “Born of a great father.” 21 Psalms cxiii.-cxviii. 22 Ibid. cxx.-cxxxiv. 23 Alcimus seems to have been an adaptation, not a little remote, however, from the original, of the Hebrew name Eliakim. 24 “Bezeth,” it is called. Possibly it may be identified with Bezetha, which was afterwards part of the city. 25 Copious draughts of wine were an important part of the customary celebration of the Purim festival. 26 “Et pater Æneas et avunculus excitet Hector.” 27 Observe the Greek names of the two. In each case the father’s name is Hebrew, and the son’s Greek. This seems to show how far the Hellenization of the people had proceeded. 28 We commonly talk of the “three hundred” at Thermopylae. As a matter of fact there were _a thousand_, not reckoning the Thebans, who are said to have laid down their arms at once. But the seven hundred men from Thespiae, a little Bœotian town, fought bravely to the end; only their glory is swallowed up in that of the “three hundred” Spartans. Canon Westcott speaks of this battle as the Jewish Thermopylae (“Dictionary of the Bible”). TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Variations in hyphenation have not been changed. In several places, wrong quotation marks have been silently corrected. Other changes, which have been made to the text: page xi, “ELEAZER” changed to “ELEAZAR” page 230, double “the” removed page 354, “of” changed to “or”