same that in the New Testament is always so called, and was then
the common language of the Jews in Judea, which was the Syriac dialect.

[7] Our present copies of the Old Testament want this encomium upon king
Jechoniah or Jehoiachim, which it seems was in Josephus's copy.

[8] Of this oracle, see the note on B. IV. ch. 6. sect. 3. Josephus,
both here and in many places elsewhere, speaks so, that it is most
evident he was fully satisfied that God was on the Romans' side, and
made use of them now for the destruction of that wicked nation of
the Jews; which was for certain the true state of this matter, as the
prophet Daniel first, and our Savior himself afterwards, had clearly
foretold. See Lit. Accompl. of Proph. p. 64, etc.

[9] Josephus had before told us, B. V. ch. 13. sect. 1, that this
fourth son of Matthias ran away to the Romans "before" his father's and
brethren's slaughter, and not "after" it, as here. The former account
is, in all probability, the truest; for had not that fourth son escaped
before the others were caught and put to death, he had been caught and
put to death with them. This last account, therefore, looks like an
instance of a small inadvertence of Josephus in the place before us.

[10] Of this partition-wall separating Jews and Gentiles, with its
pillars and inscription, see the description of the temples, ch. 15.

[11] That these seditious Jews were the direct occasions of their own
destruction, and of the conflagration of their city and temple, and that
Titus earnestly and constantly labored to save both, is here and every
where most evident in Josephus.

[12] Court of the Gentiles.

[13] Court of Israel.

[14] Of the court of the Gentiles.

[15] What Josephus observes here, that no parallel examples had been
recorded before this time of such sieges, wherein mothers were forced by
extremity of famine to eat their own children, as had been threatened to
the Jews in the law of Moses, upon obstinate disobedience, and more than
once fulfilled, [see my Boyle's Lectures, p. 210-214,] is by Dr. Hudson
supposed to have had two or three parallel examples in later ages. He
might have had more examples, I suppose, of persons on ship-board, or in
a desert island, casting lots for each others' bodies; but all this
was only in cases where they knew of no possible way to avoid death
themselves but by killing and eating others. Whether such examples come
up to the present case may be doubted. The R