in.

[8] These pyramids or pillars, erected by Helena, queen of Adiabene,
near Jerusalem, three in number, are mentioned by Eusebius, in
his Eccles. Hist. B. II. ch. 12, for which Dr. Hudson refers us to
Valesius's notes upon that place.--They are also mentioned by Pausanias,
as hath been already noted, ch. 2. sect. 6. Reland guesses that that now
called Absalom's Pillar may be one of them.

[9] This Theudas, who arose under Fadus the procurator, about A.D. 45 or
46, could not be that Thendas who arose in the days of the taxing, under
Cyrenius, or about A.D. 7, Acts v. 36, 37. Who that earlier Theudas was,
see the note on B. XVII. ch. 10. sect. 5.

[10] This and many more tumults and seditions which arose at the Jewish
festivals, in Josephus, illustrate the cautious procedure of the Jewish
governors, when they said, Matthew 26:5, "Let us not take Jesus on the
feast-day, lest there be an up roar among the people;" as Reland well
observes on tins place. Josephus also takes notice of the same thing, Of
the War, B. I. ch. 4. sect. 3.

[11] This constant passage of the Galileans through the country of
Samaria, as they went to Judea and Jerusalem, illustrates several
passages in the Gospels to the same purpose, as Dr. Hudson rightly
observes. See Luke 17:11; John 4:4. See also Josephus in his own Life,
sect. 52, where that journey is determined to three days.

[12] Our Savior had foretold that the Jews' rejection of his gospel
would bring upon them, among other miseries, these three, which they
themselves here show they expected would be the consequences of their
present tumults and seditions: the utter subversion of their country,
the conflagration of their temple, and the slavery of themselves, their
wives, and children See Luke 21:6-24.

[13] This Simon, a friend of Felix, a Jew, born in Cyprus, though he
pretended to be a magician, and seems to have been wicked enough, could
hardly be that famous Simon the magician, in the Acts of the Apostles,
8:9, etc., as some are ready to suppose. This Simon mentioned in the
Acts was not properly a Jew, but a Samaritan, of the town of Gittae,
in the country of Samaria, as the Apostolical Constitutions, VI. 7, the
Recognitions of Clement, II. 6, and Justin Martyr, himself born in the
country of Samaria, Apology, I. 34, inform us. He was also the author,
not of any ancient Jewish, but of the first Gentile heresies, as the
forementioned authors assure us. So I suppose him a differe