ngs] is of the
greatest consequence for the determination of the time for the death of
Herod and Antipater, and for the birth and entire chronology of Jesus
Christ. It happened March 13th, in the year of the Julian period 4710,
and the 4th year before the Christian era. See its calculation by the
rules of astronomy, at the end of the Astronomical Lectures, edit. Lat.
p. 451, 452.

[9] A place for the horse-races.

[10] When it is here said that Philip the tetrarch, and Archelaus the
king, or ethnarch, were own brother, or genuine brothers, if those words
mean own brothers, or born of the same father and mother, there must be
here some mistake; because they had indeed the same father, Herod, but
different mothers; the former Cleopatra, and Archclaus Malthace. They
were indeed brought up together privately at Rome like when he went to
have his kingdom confirmed to him at Rome, ch. 9. sect. 5; and Of the
War, B. II. ch. 2. sect. 1; which intimacy is perhaps all that Josephus
intended by the words before us.

[11] These numbers of years for Herod's reign, 34 and 37, are the very
same with those, Of the War, B. I. ch. 33. sect. 8, and are among the
principal chronological characters belonging to the reign or death of
Herod. See Harm. p. 150--155.

[12] At eight stadia or furlongs a-day, as here, Herod's funeral,
conducted to Herodium, which lay at the distance from Jericho, where he
died, of 200 stadia or furlongs, Of the War, B. 1. ch. 33. sect. 9, must
have taken up no less than twenty-five days.

[13] This passover, when the sedition here mentioned was moved against
Archelaus, was not one, but thirteen months after the eclipse of the
moon already mentioned.

[14] See Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13. sect. 10; and Of the War; B. II. ch. 12.
sect. 9.

[15] These great devastations made about the temple here, and Of the
War, B. II. ch. 3. sect. 3, seem not to have been full re-edified in
the days of Nero; till whose time there were eighteen thousand workmen
continually employed in rebuilding and repairing that temple, as
Josephus informs us, Antiq. B. XX. ch. 9. sect. 7. See the note on that
place.

[16] Unless this Judas, the son of Ezekias, be the same with that
Theudas, mentioned Acts 5:36, Josephus must have omitted him; for
that other Thoualas, whom he afterward mentions, under Fadus the Roman
governor, B. XX. ch. 5. sect. 1, is much too late to correspond to him
that is mentioned in the Acts. The names Theudas, Thadde