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we to esteem his alike hard words of the Christians to be blots upon his own character, and not upon theirs.

VII. Since therefore Tacitus, soon after the publication of Josephus's Antiquities, and in contradiction to them, was determined to produce such idle stories about the Jews, and since one of those idle stories is much the same with that published in Josephus against Apion, from Manetho and Lysimachus, and no where else met with so fully in all antiquity, it is most probable that those Antiquities of Josephus were the very occasion of Tacitus giving us these stories, as we know from Josephus himself, contr. Apion, B. i. sect. 1, that the same Antiquities were the very occasion of Apion's publication of his equally scandalous stories about them, and which Josephus so thoroughly confuted in his two books written against them. And if Tacitus, as I suppose, had also read these two books, his procedure in publishing such stories after he had seen so thorough a confutation of them, was still more highly criminal. Nor will Tacitus's fault be much less, though we suppose he neither saw the Antiquities, nor the books against Apion, because it was not so very easy for him, then at Rome, to have had more authentic accounts of the origin of the Jewish nation, and of the nature of the Jewish and Christian religion, from the Jews and Christians themselves, which he owns were very numerous there in his days; so that his publication of such idle stories is still utterly inexcusable.

VIII. It is therefore very plain, after all, that notwithstanding these encomiums of several of our learned critics upon Tacitus, and hard suspicions upon Josephus, that all the (involuntary) mistakes of Josephus, in all his large works put together, their quality as well as quantity, considered, do not amount to near so great a sum, as do these gross errors and misrepresentations of Tacitus's about the Jews amount to in a few pages, so little reason have some of our later and lesser critics to prefer the Greek and Roman profane historians and writers to the Jewish, and particularly to Josephus. Such later and lesser critics should have learned more judgment and modesty from their great father Joseph Scaliger, when, as we have seen, after all his deeper inquiries, he solemnly pronounces, De Emend. Temp. Prolegom. p. 17. That "Josephus was the most diligent and the greatest lover of truth of all writers:" and is not afraid to affirm, that "it is more safe to believe him, not only as to the affairs of the Jews, but also as to those that are foreign to them, than all the Greek and Latin writers, and this because his fidelity and compass of learning are every where conspicuous."

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INDEX.

The first number is that of the respective Volume, the second refers to the

Page.

AARON, i. 97. Is made high-
priest, iii. 184. His sons, i. 138.
His death, i. 171.
Abassar, or Sanabassar, ii. 102.
Abbarus, judge of the Tyrians, iv.
299.

Abdastartus, king of the Tyrians,
iv. 295.

Abdemon, a Tyrian, i. 411. iv. 295.
Abdenago, or Abednego, ii. 73.
Abdon succeeds Elon as judge, i.

248.

Abel, i. 11. His sacrifice, ib.
Abenerig, king of Charax Spasini,
iii. 158.

Abia, or Abijah, the son of Reho-

boam, i. 428. Succeeds his fa-
ther, 430. Conquers the ten
tribes, 434.

king of the Arabians, iii. 164.
Abiather, the son of Abimelech, i.
305. Saves his life, and flies to
David, 306. Is high-priest, 320,
342, 356, 370, 380. Is deprived
of the high-priesthood, 388.
Abibalus, king of the Tyrians, iv.

295.

Abigail, i. 311. Married to David,

313.

Amasa's mother, i. 361.
Abihu, the son of Aaron, i. 138.
Abilamaradochus, or Evil-Mero-
dach, ii. 79.
Abimael, i. 25.

Abimelech tyrannizes over the She-
chemites, i. 244. Is expelled,
245. He destroys them all, 246.
Is killed by a piece of a mill-
stone, ib.

Abinadab, i. 265, 392, and ii. 99.
Abiram, i. 162.

Abishai, i. 313.

Abner, son of Ner, i. 325. Saul's
kinsman, 272. General of his
army, 325. Reconciles the Is-
raelites to David, 328. Is killed,
329.

Abram, or Abraham, the son of Te-
rah, i. 25. Leaves Chaldea and
goes to Canaan, 26. Lives at
Damascus, 27. Advises his sons
to plant colonies, 40. Instructs
the Egyptians in the mathema-
tical sciences, 28. Divides the
country between himself and Lot,
ib. God promises him a son, 30.
He beats the Assyrians, 29. Dies,

43.

Absalom, i. 335. Flies to Geshur,
353. Is recalled by a stratagem
of Joab's, 354. Rebels against
David, 355. Pursues after him,
356. His army is put to flight,
362. Hangs on a tree by his
hair, ib. Is stabbed by Joab, and
dies, ib.

Acencheres, king of Egypt, iv. 292,
Acenchres, queen of Egypt, ib.
Achar, or Achan, is guilty of theft,
i. 215. Is punished, 216.
Achitophel, or Ahitophel, Abso-

lom's favourite, i. 356. Gives
evil counsel, 358. Hangs him-
self, 360.

Acme, iii. 20. Her letters to An-
tipater and Herod. ib. Her
death, 27.
Acmon, son of Araph, or Ishbi, the
son of Ob, of the race of the
giants, attacks David, i. 371. Is
killed by Abishai, ib.
Acratheus, or Hatach, ii. 118.

Abishag, a virgin, David's nurse, i. Actium, battle at, in the seventh

379.

year of Herod's reign, ii. 336, 315.

Ada, the wife of Lamech, i. 12.
Adad, a king of Damascus, i. 340,
et seq.

Adam created, i. 8. His fall, 10.
Ader, or Hadad, an Idumean, i.
420.

Adonias, or Adonijah, pretends to
the crown, i. 379. Takes sanc-
tuary at the altar, 381. Demands
Abishag to wife, 387. Is refused,
388.
Adoniabezek, king of Jerusalem, i.
228. Is made prisoner, and has
his hands and feet cut off, and
dies at Jerusalem, ib.
Adoram, i. 396.
Addrammelech, ii. 48.
Adrazar, or Hedadezer, king of So-
phene, or Zoba, i. 340, 420.
Ebutius, a decurion, iii. 206.
Ægypt, named from a king, iv. 293.
Ægyptian kings called Pharaohs
for 1300 years, till the reign of
Solomon, i. 413.
Ægyptians famous before all other

nations for wisdom, 393. Learn-
ed mathematics of Abraham, 28.
Their sacred scribes or priests,
86. They held it unlawful to
feed cattle, 83.

Ægyptian false prophet put to flight
by Felix, iii. 177, 395.
Ælius Gallus, ii. 365.
Emilius Regulus, iii. 109.
Eneas, surnamed Aretas, succeeds

Obodas in Arabia, ii. 416.
Esopus, a servant, ii. 326.
Æthiopian commodities were slaves
and monkeys, i. 417.
Ethiopians bordering on the Ara-
bians, ii. 17.

Agag, king of the Amalekites, i.
285. Is killed, 288.

Agar, or Hagar, and Ishmael are

sent away by Abraham, i, 36.
Ayyaguiodas, or forcible pressure
taken off the Jews by Demetrius,
ii. 197, et seq.

Ageus, or Haggai, the prophet, ii.

101. He prophesies at the re-
building of the temple, 102.
Agones, or games every fifth year,
in honour of Cæsar, instituted by
Herod, ii. 356. iii. 315. At the
finishing Cæsarea, ii. 396.
Agrippa, (Marens the Roman's)
bounty towards the Jews, ii. 151.
Is splendidly entertained by He-

rod, 380. Makes equal returns
to him at Synope, 381. His ex-
pedition to the Bosphorus, ib.
His speech to the Jews at Jeru-
salem, iii. 407, et seq. He con-
firms their privileges, ii. 386. His
letter to the Ephesians in favour
of the Jews, 400. And to those
of Cyrene, ib.

Agrippa the Great, or Elder, He-
rod's grandson, iii. 5. 72. His
various adventures, 72, et seq. Is
manacled and imprisoned, 80, et
seq. His future liberty and hap-
piness foretold, 81. Is released,
and made lord of two tetrarchies,
with the title of king, 86. Gives
Caius a sumptuous entertainment
at Rome, 94. Is sent by the se-
nate to Claudius, 138. His advice
to Claudius, ib. Is sent back to
his kingdom, 144. Claudius be-
stows on him almost all the do-
minions of his grandfather, 142.
His eulogium, 149. His bounty
towards those of Berytus, ib. He
treats several kings splendidly,
150. Entertains Cæsarea with
shows, and appears himself upon
the stage in a magnificent dress,
and is applauded as a god, 151.
Dies an unnatural death soon
after, 152. His death and chil-
dren, 389.

his son by Cypros, iii. 389.
Did not immediately succeed in
his father's kingdom, 154. Clau-
dius gave him that of his uncle
Herod [of Chalcis], 168, 390.
To which he added the tetrar-
chies of Philip and Lysanias, 172.
He is hurt by a sling stone at the
siege of Gamala, iv. 55. His let-
ters to Josephus, iii. 235. His
famous speech to the Jews, to
dissuade them from a war with
the Romans, 407, et seq.

iii. 173.

, son of Felix and Drusilla,

Fonteius slain, iv. 244.
Ahab, king of Israel, i. 439. Is re-
proved by Elijah, 445. Fights
with Benhadad, and beats bim,
446, et seq. Pardons him, 449.
Is afterwards killed himself by
the Syrians, 454. His sons, ii. 21.
Ahaz, king of Judah, ii. 39.
Ahaziah, son of Ahab, i. 455. ii. 5, 20.

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