ephus here, and in
the Antiq. B. XV. ch. 9. sect. 6, and B. XVII. ch. 9. sect. 1.

[34] These buildings of cities by the name of Caesar, and institution
of solemn games in honor of Augustus Caesar, as here, and in the
Antiquities, related of Herod by Josephus, the Roman historians attest
to, as things then frequent in the provinces of that empire, as Dean
Aldrich observes on this chapter.

[35] There were two cities, or citadels, called Herodium, in Judea, and
both mentioned by Josephus, not only here, but Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13.
sect. 9; B. XV. ch. 9. sect. 6; Of the War, B. I. ch. 13. sect. 8; B.
III. ch. 3. sect. 5. One of them was two hundred, and the other sixty
furlongs distant from Jerusalem. One of them is mentioned by Pliny,
Hist. Nat. B. V. ch. 14., as Dean Aldrich observes here.

[36] Here seems to be a small defect in the copies, which describe the
wild beasts which were hunted in a certain country by Herod, without
naming any such country at all.

[37] Here is either a defect or a great mistake in Josephus's present
copies or memory; for Mariamne did not now reproach Herod with this
his first injunction to Joseph to kill her, if he himself were slain by
Antony, but that he had given the like command a second time to Soemus
also, when he was afraid of being slain by Augustus. Antiq. B. XV. ch.
3. sect. 5, etc.

[38] That this island Eleusa, afterward called Sebaste, near Cilicia,
had in it the royal palace of this Archclaus, king of Cappadocia, Strabo
testifies, B. XV. p. 671. Stephanus of Byzantiam also calls it "an
island of Cilicia, which is now Sebaste;" both whose testimonies are
pertinently cited here by Dr. Hudson. See the same history, Antiq. B.
XVI. ch. 10. sect. 7.

[39] That it was an immemorial custom among the Jews, and their
forefathers, the patriarchs, to have sometimes more wives or wives and
concubines, than one at the same the and that this polygamy was not
directly forbidden in the law of Moses is evident; but that polygamy
was ever properly and distinctly permitted in that law of Moses, in the
places here cited by Dean Aldrich, Deuteronomy 17:16, 17, or 21:15, or
indeed any where else, does not appear to me. And what our Savior says
about the common Jewish divorces, which may lay much greater claim to
such a permission than polygamy, seems to me true in this case also;
that Moses, "for the hardness of their hearts," suffered them to have
several wives at the same time, but that "fro