acred rites
and religious customs, and to the meditation on the law of Moses; the
like to which we meet with elsewhere in Josephus also against Apion, B.
I. sect. 22.

[2] This interval of ten years for the duration of Marcus Agrippa's
government in Asia seems to be true, and agreeable to the Roman history.
See Usher's Annals at A.M. 3392.

[3] Although Herod met Augustus at Aquilei, yet was this accusation of
his sons deferred till they came to Rome, as sect. 3 assures us, and as
we are particularly informed in the History of the War, B. I. ch. 23.
sect. 3; though what he here says belonged distinctly to Alexander, the
elder brother, I mean his being brought to Rome, is here justly extended
to both the brothers, and that not only in our copies, but in that of
Zonaras also; nor is there reason to doubt but they were both at this
solemn hearing by Augustus, although the defense was made by Alexander
alone, who was the eldest brother, and one that could speak very well.

[4] Since some prejudiced men have indulged a wild suspicion, as we have
supposed already, Antiq. B. XV. ch. 11. sect. 7, that Josephus's history
of Herod's rebuilding the temple is no better than a fable, it may
not be amiss to take notice of this occasional clause in the speech of
Alexander before his father Herod, in his and his brother's vindication,
which mentions the temple as known by every body to have been built by
Herod.

[5] See John 2:20. See also another speech of Herod's own to the young
men that pulled down his golden eagle from the front of the temple,
where he takes notice how the building of the temple cost him a vast
sum; and that the Asamoneans, in those one hundred and twenty-five years
they held the government, were not able to perform so great a work, to
the honor of God, as this was, Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 6. sect. 3.

[6] Dr. Hudson here gives us the words of Suetonius concerning this
Nicopolis, when Augustus rebuilt it: "And that the memory of the victory
at Actium might be celebrated the more afterward, he built Nicopolis
at Actium, and appointed public shows to be there exhibited every fifth
year." In August, sect. 18.

[7] Augustus here calls Julius Caesar his father, though by birth he was
only his uncle, on account of his adoption by him. See the same Antiq.
B. XIV. ch. 14. sect. 4.

[8] This is authentic evidence that the Jews, in the days of Augustus,
began to prepare for the celebration of the sabbath at the ninth ho