;
just as the New Testament says "Archelaus reigned," or "was king,"
Matthew 2:22, though he was properly no more than ethnarch, as Josephus
assures us, Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 11. sect. 4; Of the War, B. II. ch. 6.
sect. 3. Thus also the Jews called the Roman emperors "kings," though
they never took that title to themselves: "We have no king but Caesar,"
John 19:15. "Submit to the king as supreme," 1 Peter 2:13, 17; which is
also the language of the Apostolical Constitutions, II. II, 31; IV.
13; V. 19; VI. 2, 25; VII. 16; VIII. 2, 13; and elsewhere in the New
Testament, Matthew 10:18; 17:25; 1 Timothy 2:2; and in Josephus also;
though I suspect Josephus particularly esteemed Titus as joint king with
his father ever since his divine dreams that declared them both such, B.
III. ch. 8. sect. 9.

[8] This situation of the Mount of Olives, on the east of Jerusalem, at
about the distance of five or six furlongs, with the valley of Cedron
interposed between that mountain and the city, are things well known
both in the Old and New Testament, in Josephus elsewhere, and in all the
descriptions of Palestine.

[9] Here we see the true occasion of those vast numbers of Jews that
were in Jerusalem during this siege by Titus, and perished therein;
that the siege began at the feast of the passover, when such prodigious
multitudes of Jews and proselytes of the gate were come from all parts
of Judea, and from other countries, in order to celebrate that great
festival. See the note B. VI. ch. 9. sect. 3. Tacitus himself informs
us, that the number of men, women, and children in Jerusalem, when it
was besieged by the Romans, as he had been informed. This information
must have been taken from the Romans: for Josephus never recounts the
numbers of those that were besieged, only he lets us know, that of the
vulgar, carried dead out of the gates, and buried at the public charges,
was the like number of 600,000, ch. viii. sect. 7. However, when
Cestius Gallus came first to the siege, that sum in Tacitus is no way
disagreeable to Josephus's history, though they were become much more
numerous when Titus encompassed the city at the passover. As to the
number that perished during this siege, Josephus assures us, as we
shall see hereafter, they were 1,100,000, besides 97,000 captives. But
Tacitus's history of the last part of this siege is not now extant; so
we cannot compare his parallel numbers with those of Josephus.

[10] Perhaps, says Dr. Hudso