[264] The journey took about three months, either up the Nile, thence by caravan, and again by sea; or else perhaps by the Ptolemy Canal and the Red Sea.
[265] It included gold-dust, ivory, and mother-of-pearl from the interior of Africa, spices from Arabia, pearls from the Gulf of Persia, precious stones and byssus from India, and silk from China.
[266] On the existence of the Therapeutes comp. Art. Philo in Smith & Wace's Dict. of Chr. Biogr. vol. iv.
[267] Mommsen (Röm. Gesch. v. p. 489) ascribes this rather to Ptolemy I.
[268] Sukk. 51 b.
[269] Instead of the seven-branched golden candlestick there was a golden lamp, suspended from a chain of the same metal.
[270] Is xix. 18.
[271] Philo, ii. 646, ed. Mangey.
[272] Jos. Ag. Ap. i. 7.
[273] Men. xiii. 10, and the Gemara, 109 a and b.
[274] Strabo in Jos. Ant. xiv. 7, 2.
[275] Could there have been any such meaning in laying the Roman cross which Jesus had to bear upon a Cyrenian (St. Luke xxiii. 26)? A symbolical meaning it certainly has, as we remember that the last Jewish rebellion (132-135 a.d.), which had Bar Cochba for its Messiah, first broke out in Cyrene. What terrible vengeance was taken on those who followed the false Christ, cannot here be told.
[276] Jewish inscriptions have also been found in Mauritania and Algiers.
[277] On a tombstone at Capua (Mommsen, Inscr. R. Neap. 3,657, apud Schürer, p 629). The subject is of great importance as illustrating the rule of the Synagogue in the days of Christ. Another designation on the gravestones patr sunagogs seems to refer solely to age - one being described as 110 years old.
[278] Jost, Gesch. d. Judenth. i. p. 345.
[279] Marquardt (Röm. Staatsverwalt. vol. i. p. 297). Note 5 suggests that thnos may here mean classes, ordo.
[280] Strabo in Jos. Ant. xiv. 7. 2
[281] The office itself would seem to have been continued. (Jos. Ant. xix. 5. 2.)
[282] Philo, in Flacc. ed. Mangey, ii. 527
[283] Comp. Wesseling, de Jud. Archont. pp. 63, &c., apud Schürer, pp. 627,628.
[284] Jos. Ant. xiv. 13. 5; War. i. 13, 5
[285] Ant. xix 5. 1
[286] Ant. xviii. 6.3
[287] Ant. xix. 5. 1; xx. 5. 3
[288] Comp., for example, such a trenchant chapter as Baruch vi., or the 2nd Fragm. of the Erythr. Sibyl, vv. 21-33.
[289] Probably about 200 b.c.
[290] Comp. Friedländer, u. s. ii. p. 155.
[291] A very good sketch of Apion is given by Hausrath, Neutest. Zeitg. vol. ii. pp. 187-195.
[292] Jos. Ag. Ap. ii. 4, 5, 6.
[293] Leg. ad Caj. ed. Frcf.
[294] Comp. Tacitus, Hist. v. 2-4; Plut. Sympos. iv. 5
[295] Hist. Nat. xiii. 4.
[296] Persius v. 184.
[297] Comp. the quotation of such scenes in the Introd. to the Midrash on Lamentations.
[298] Juv. Sat. xiv. 103, 104
[299] Hist. v. 13
[300] Ann. ii.85, Comp. Suet. Tib. 36.
[301] Philo, Leg. ad Caj. ed. Frcf. p. 101.
[302] Life 3.
[303] Lutterbeck (Neutest. Lehrbegr. p. 119), following up the suggestions of Wieseler (Chron. d. Apost. Zeitalt. pp. 384, 402, etc.), regards these priests as the accusers of St. Paul, who brought about his martyrdom.
[304] Comp., for example, Mart. xi. 94; Jos. Life 3.
[305] Martialis, u. s. The Anchialus' by whom the poet would have the Jew swear, is a corruption of Anochi Elohim (I am God') in Ex. xx. 2. Comp. Ewald, Gesch. Isr. vol. vii. p. 27.
[306] Mart. i.41; xii. 57.
[307] Described by Bosio, but since unknown. Comp. Friedländer, u. s. vol. iii. pp. 510, 511.
[308] Sat. iii.13; vi. 542.
[309] Comp. Friedländer, u. s. vol. iii. p.510.
[310] Midr. R. on Ex. 36.
[311] Jos. Ant. xvii. 12. 1; War ii. 7. 1.
[312] Comp. Cassel, in Ersch u. Gruber's Encyclop. 2d sect. vol. xxvii. p. 147.