3. Some acquaint us with the time when it was done, _viz. the next day after he had given the kiss_. So _Chrysostom. Homil. 1. de proditor. et Mysterio Cœn. Dominic. Guttur prophanum quod hodie Christo extendis ad osculum, crastino es illud extensurus ad laqueum_. But there are two, that is _Euthymius_ and _Oecumenius_, that tell us, _that the hanging did not kill him_, but that either the Rope broke, or that he was cut down, and afterwards cast himself down headlong, as it is related in the before mentioned place of the _Acts_: _Agnitus à quibusdam depositus est ne præfocaretur, denique postquam in secreto quodam loco modico vixisset tempore præceps factus sive præcipitatus, inflatus diruptus, ac diffisus est medius, et effusa sunt omnia viscera ejus; ut in_ Actis. _Euthym._ cap. 67. _in Math. Judas suspendio è vita non decessit, sed supervixit, dejectus est enim prius quam præfocaretur, idque Apotolorum Acta indicant, quod pronus crepuit medius_. Oecumen. in Act. And this may serve to reconcile these two seemingly disagreeing Scriptures. _Pag. 37._ _That our Fathers after the Flood erected the Tower of_ Babel.] For this see what the Author saith in his _Pseudodox. Epidemic_. l. 7, cap. 6. _And cannot but commend the judgment of_ Ptolemy.] He means of _Ptolemæus Philadelphus_, who founded the Library of _Alexandria_, which he speaks of in the next Section. He was King of _Egypt_; and having built and furnish'd that Library with all the choicest Books he could get from any part of the world, and having good correspondence with _Eleazer_ the high Priest of the _Jews_, by reason that he had released the _Jews_ from Captivity, who were taken by his Predecessor _Ptolemæus Lagi_; he did by the advice of _Demetrius Phalereus_ the _Athenian_, whom he had made his Library-Keeper, write to _Eleazer_, desiring him that he would cause the Books of the _Jews_, which contained their Laws, to be translated for him into Greek, that he might have them to put into his Library: to which the Priest consents; and for the King's better satisfaction, sends to him Copies of the Books, and with the same 72 Interpreters skilled both in the Greek and Hebrew Language, to translate them for him into Greek; which afterwards they performed. This is for certain; but whether they translated only the _Pentateuch_, as St. _Jerome_ would have it, or together with the Books of the Prophets also, as _Leo de Castro_ and _Baronius_ contend, I undertake not to determine: but as to that part of the story, that these Interpreters were put into so many several Cells, whilst they were about the work of translation; and notwithstanding they were thus severed, that they all translated it _totidem verbis_; it is but reason to think with St. _Jerome_ (notwithstanding the great current of Authority against him) that it is no better than a fable.