that name. See Authent. Rec. Part I. p. 207.
But of this younger Antiochus, see Dean Aldrich's note here.

[3] Josephus here calls this Antiochus the last of the Seleucidae,
although there remained still a shadow of another king of that family,
Antiochus Asiaticus, or Commagenus, who reigned, or rather lay hid, till
Pompey quite turned him out, as Dean Aldrich here notes from Appian and
Justin.

[4] Matthew 16:19; 18:18. Here we have the oldest and most authentic
Jewish exposition of binding and loosing, for punishing or absolving
men, not for declaring actions lawful or unlawful, as some more modern
Jews and Christians vainly pretend.

[5] Strabo, B. XVI. p. 740, relates, that this Selene Cleopatra was
besieged by Tigranes, not in Ptolemais, as here, but after she had left
Syria, in Seleucia, a citadel in Mesopotamia; and adds, that when he had
kept her a while in prison, he put her to death. Dean Aldrich supposes
here that Strabo contradicts Josephus, which does not appear to me; for
although Josephus says both here and in the Antiquities, B. XIII. ch.
16. sect. 4, that Tigranes besieged her now in Ptolemais, and that
he took the city, as the Antiquities inform us, yet does he no where
intimate that he now took the queen herself; so that both the narrations
of Strabo and Josephus may still be true notwithstanding.

[6] That this Antipater, the father of Herod the Great was an Idumean,
as Josephus affirms here, see the note on Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 15. sect.
2. It is somewhat probable, as Hapercamp supposes, and partly Spanheim
also, that the Latin is here the truest; that Pompey did him Hyrcanus,
as he would have done the others from Aristobulus, sect. 6, although
his remarkable abstinence from the 2000 talents that were in the Jewish
temple, when he took it a little afterward, ch. 7. sect. 6, and Antiq.
B. XIV. ch. 4. sect. 4, will to Greek all which agree he did not take
them.

[7] Of the famous palm trees and balsam about Jericho and Engaddl, see
the notes in Havercamp's edition, both here and B. II. ch. 9. sect. 1.
They are somewhat too long to be transcribed in this place.

[8] Thus says Tacitus: Cn. Pompelna first of all subdued the Jews, and
went into their temple, by right of conquest, Hist. B. V. ch. 9. Nor did
he touch any of its riches, as has been observed on the parallel place
of the Antiquities, B. XIV. ch. 4. sect. 4, out of Cicero himself.

[9] The coin of this Gadara, still extant, with its date f