contradiction between the two historians Gfll17.1Mt1 booauee Galilee W8II the seat of his shows that no oertain ty oe.n without further 0 insurreotion (Josephus,• Ant.,' :a:viii. i. 1 and light be arrived at. B ut it may be observed 6; also • Bell. J ud.,' ii. viii. 1 : xvii. 8). He that it iB quite impOSBible to suppose that was the great leader of the Jews in opposing any one eo well informed and so aoourate u the oonsue ordered by Augustus, after the St. Luke is could imagine that an event deposition of Archeleus, end oe.rried out by thnt he must have remembered perfectly, if Cyrenius. or rather P. Sulpicius Quirinua, it happened under the procuratorship of the Propraitor of Syria, with the assistance Fadus. had happened before the disturb- of Cumanue, the subordinate Governor of ances ce.u!.'lld by J udu of Galilee, at least Judaia. Judas, with Zadoo his coadjutor, wee thirt..- ..-ears before. But it is most certain 0 tho founder of a fourth Jewish sect, nearly that Josephns's account of Theudas agrees allied to the Pho.risees, and his sedition better with Gama.liel's notice than that of wos founded on his philosophic tenets. Jose- either of the other persons suggested, phus speaks of him as the author of all the irrespective of the identity of name, The seditions, tumults, slaughters, sieges, devas- first way of ex:plaining the difficulty above tations, plunder, famines, ending with the proposed has, therefore, most probability burning of the temple, which afflicted his in it. But some further corroboration of unhappy country. He gives no account of this ex:plnnation mny be found in some of his death. But his two sons, James and the details of Theudo.s's proceedings given Simon, were crucified by Tiberius Alexander, by Joseph11& He tells us that Theudos the successor of Cuspius Fadus. Another persuaded a great number of people to son, Menahem, having collected and armed .. collect all their possessions '' and follow a lo.rge band of robbers and other insur- him to the banks of the Jordan, where he gents, after a partially successful attack promised, like a second Elijah, to part the on the Roman camp at Jerusalem, was waters for them to pass over; that they did miserably ale.in. The enrolment ( 71 li:n:IY)'pa.,p-1,, so, but that Fadus sent a troop of horse as Luke ii. 1). The purpose of Augustus. after them., who slew numbers of them, and which had been delayed some years from amongst them their leader. Now, if this causes not accurately known, perhaps in happened when the business of the census deference to some remonstrance from Herod wa:i beginning to be agitated, after the the Great, wns now carried into effect. deposition of Arohelaus (.LD. 6 or 7), all is Quirinus was sent, e.ppe.rently the second plain. Theudas declaimed as a prophet time, ns Proprretor of Syria, to which Judaia against 8llbmitting to the censns of their we.a now attached, with Cumanus under him goods ordered by .A.n.gustua. The people as Procure.tor of Judrea, to make a valuation were of the same mind. Theudas persuaded of all their property. The Jews had been them that, if they brought all their goods to first persuaded by the high priest J oazar, t.e. the banks of the J orda.n. he would divide apparently in the end of Herod's reign, or the stream and enable them to carry them the beginning of A:rchelaus's, to submit to over to the other side out of reach of the what they greatly disliked, but were now tax-gatherer. And so they made the attempt. roused to insurrection by Judas of Galilee But this wws an act of rebellion against the (' Ant.,' xviii. i 1). He also perished. Roman power, e.nd a method of defeating Nothing is known of his death beyond the purpose of the census, which must be this notice of it. Scattered abroad. Not crushed at once. And so the people were crushed, for the insurrection broke out again pursued and slaughtered. But apart from and again, having the charaoter of a the census of their goods, one sees no motive religions war given to it by Judas of either for the attempt to carry away their Galilee. property, or for ihe slaughter of an unarmed Ver. 38.-.Zle overthroum tor OOl1l8 to oought, multitude by the Roman cavalry. So that A.V. the iniernal evid6nce is in favonr of St. Ver. 39.-Is for be, A.V.: IDill not be able Luke's collocation of the incident, at the to for cannot, A. V.: them for it, A.V. and same time that his authority as a contem- T.R.; to be fighting for to fight, A. V. porary historian is much higher than that Ver. 40.-Called wnto them (1rpou1<a.>..,ud.µ•• of Josephus. Still. one desiderates some vo1) for simply called, .A..V.; they beat thtm more satisfactory proof of the error of Jo- and charged them for and beaten them, they sephus, and some account of how he fell commanded, .A..V. ; not to speak for that they into it. should not speak, A.V. Ver. 37.-Enrolmem for f.azing, .A..V.: Ver. 41.-T/ieg therefore for and they, A.V,; Berm£ of the for mu.eh, .A.. V. : iu many for diBhonour for the Name, for shame f<1r hie eve?< iu many, .A.. V.: ecattered abroad for Name, A.V. and T.R.(seo 1 Pet. iv.12-16; diope,·,ed, A.V. 1udu of G11lilee, otherwise John xv. 21). called the Gaulonit.e, as a native of Game.la, Ver. 42.-Every day for daily, A.V.: at in Gaulonitis. He was probably called a home for in everv houae, A.V. {see eh, ii. 4~ OIi, v. 1-42.] THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. 1G3
noto) : '-6 preach JeBua as the ChritJt for precious example to their succeeeors. To preacl, JeBUB Christ, A.V. o.nd T.R. The glory in the croes, to count shame endured meo.ning is tho.t thoy do.Hy preaohed Jesus for Christ's BBke the highest honour, and to Ohriet both in tho t.emple 1md in the bouee be unwearied and undo.unted in teaching or boueee where the dieciples were wont to a.nd preaching Jesus Christ through good meet (eee eh. ii. 46, note). 'l'he epirit and report and through evil report, is the true conduct of the apostles hore recorded is a. character and work of every biilhop of 10uls.