f conquest, and the
enlargement of power, the whole world might be at quiet; but their
ambition, their follies, and their humor, leading them constantly to
encroach upon and quarrel with each other, they involve all that are
under them in the mischiefs thereof; and many thousands are they which
yearly perish by it; so that it may almost raise a doubt, whether the
benefit which the world receives from government be sufficient to make
amends for the calamities which it suffers from the follies, mistakes,
and real-administrations of those that manage it."

[18] Cesarea being here said to be rebuilt and adorned in twelve years,
and soon afterwards in ten years, Antiq. B. XVI. ch. 5. sect. 1, there
must be a mistake in one of the places as to the true number, but in
which of them it is hard positively to determine.

[19] This Pollio, with whom Herod's sons lived at Rome, was not Pollio
the Pharisee, already mentioned by Josephus, ch. 1. sect. 1, and again
presently after this, ch. 10. sect. 4; but Asinine Pollo, the Roman, as
Spanheim here observes.

[20] The character of this Zenodorus is so like that of a famous robber
of the same name in Strabo, and that about this very country, and about
this very time also, that I think Dr. Hudson hardly needed to have put a
overlaps to his determination that they were the same.

[21] A tetrarchy properly and originally denoted the fourth part of an
entire kingdom or country, and a tetrarch one that was ruler of such a
fourth part, which always implies somewhat less extent of dominion and
power than belong to a kingdom and to a king.

[22] We may here observe, that the fancy of the modern Jews, in calling
this temple, which was really the third of their temples, the second
temple, followed so long by later Christians, seems to be without any
solid foundation. The reason why the Christians here followed the Jews
is, because of the prophecy of Haggai, 2:6-9, which they expound of
the Messiah's coning to the second or Zorobabel's temple, of which
they suppose this of Herod to be only a continuation; which is meant,
I think, of his coming to the fourth and last temple, of that future,
largest, and most glorious one, described by Ezekiel; whence I take
the former notion, how general soever, to be a great mistake. See Lit.
Accorap. of Proph. p. 2.

[23] Some of our modern students in architecture have made a strange
blunder here, when they imagine that Josephus affirms the entire
found