lavery; or rather, that the slaves
to be sold should be more than were the purchasers for them, and so
they should be sold for little or nothing; which is what Josephus here
affirms to have been the case at this time.

[29] What became of these spoils of the temple that escaped the fire,
see Josephus himself hereafter, B. VII. ch. 5. sect. 5, and Reland de
Spoliis Templi, p. 129-138.

[30] These various sorts of spices, even more than those four which
Moses prescribed, Exodus 31:34, we see were used in their public worship
under Herod's temple, particularly cinnamon and cassia; which Reland
takes particular notice of, as agreeing with the latter testimony of the
Talmudists.

[31] See the several predictions that the Jews, if they became obstinate
in their idolatry and wickedness, should be sent again or sold into
Egypt for their punishment, Deuteronomy 28:68; Jeremiah 44:7; Hosea
8:13; 9:3; 9:4, 5; 2 Samuel 15:10-13; with Authentic Records, Part I. p.
49, 121; and Reland Painest And, tom. II. p. 715.

[32] The whole multitude of the Jews that were destroyed during the
entire seven years before this time, in all the countries of and
bordering on Judea, is summed up by Archbishop Usher, from Lipsius, out
of Josephus, at the year of Christ 70, and amounts to 1,337,490. Nor
could there have been that number of Jews in Jerusalem to be destroyed
in this siege, as will be presently set down by Josephus, but that both
Jews and proselytes of justice were just then come up out of the other
countries of Galilee, Samaria, Judea, and Perea and other remoter
regions, to the passover, in vast numbers, and therein cooped up, as in
a prison, by the Roman army, as Josephus himself well observes in this
and the next section, and as is exactly related elsewhere, B. V. ch. 3.
sect. 1 and ch. 13. sect. 7.

[33] This number of a company for one paschal lamb, between ten and
twenty, agrees exactly with the number thirteen, at our Savior's last
passover. As to the whole number of the Jews that used to come up to
the passover, and eat of it at Jerusalem, see the note on B. II. ch. 14.
sect. 3. This number ought to be here indeed just ten times the number
of the lambs, or just 2,565,[D0, by Josephus's own reasoning; whereas it
is, in his present copies, no less than 2,700,[D0, which last number
is, however, nearest the other number in the place now cited, which is
3,000,000. But what is here chiefly remarkable is this, that no foreign
natio