An excellent example this.
[15] This Herod seems to have had the additional name of Philip, as
Antipus was named Herod-Antipas: and as Antipus and Antipater seem to be
in a manner the very same name, yet were the names of two sons of Herod
the Great; so might Philip the tetrarch and this Herod-Philip be two
different sons of the same father, all which Grotias observes on
Matthew 14:3. Nor was it, as I with Grotias and others of the Philip
the tetrarch, but this Herod-Philip, whose wife Herod the tetrarch had
married, and that in her first husband's lifetime, and when her first
husband had issue by her-; for which adulterous and incestuous marriage
John the Baptist justly reproved Herod the tetrarch, and for which
reproof Salome, the daughter of Herodias by her first husband
Herod-Philip, who was still alive, occasioned him to be unjustly
beheaded.
[16] Whether this sudden extinction of almost the entire lineage of
Herod the Great, which was very numerous, as we are both here and in
the next section informed, was not in part as a punishment for the gross
incests they were frequently guilty of, in marrying their own nephews
and nieces, well deserves to be considered. See Leviticus 18:6, 7;
21:10; and Noldius, De Herod, No. 269, 270.
[17] There are coins still extant of this Eraess, as Spanheim informs
us. Spanheim also informs us of a coin still extant of this Jotape,
daughter of the king of Commageus.
[18] Spanheim observes, that we have here an instance of the Attic
quantity of use-money, which was the eighth part of the original sum, or
12 per cent., for such is the proportion of 2500 to 20,000.
[19] The governor of the Jews there.
[20] Tiberius, junior of Germanicus.
[21] This high commendation of Antonia for marrying but once, given
here, and supported elsewhere; Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 13. sect. 4, and
this, notwithstanding the strongest temptations, shows how honorable
single marriages were both among the Jews and Romans, in the days of
Josephus and of the apostles, and takes away much of that surprise which
the modern Protestants have at those laws of the apostles, where no
widows, but those who had been the wives of one husband only, are taken
into the church list; and no bishops, priests, or deacons are allowed to
marry more than once, without leaving off to officiate as clergymen any
longer. See Luke 2:36; 1 Timothy 5:11, 12; 3:2, 12; Titus 1:10; Constit.
Apost. B. II. sect. 1, 2; B. VI. sect. 17; C
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