B.
VI. ch. 2. sect. 1, "when any one should begin to slay his countrymen
in the city;" is wanting in our present copies of the Old Testament.
See Essay on the Old Test. p. 104--112. But this prediction, as Josephus
well remarks here, though, with the other predictions of the prophets,
it was now laughed at by the seditious, was by their very means soon
exactly fulfilled. However, I cannot but here take notice of Grotius's
positive assertion upon Matthew 26:9, here quoted by Dr. Hudson,
that "it ought to be taken for granted, as a certain truth, that many
predictions of the Jewish prophets were preserved, not in writing, but
by memory." Whereas, it seems to me so far from certain, that I think it
has no evidence nor probability at all.

[11] By these hiera, or "holy places," as distinct from cities, must be
meant "proseuchae," or "houses of prayer," out of cities; of which we
find mention made in the New Testament and other authors. See Luke 6:12;
Acts 16:13, 16; Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 10. sect. 23; his Life, sect. 51. "In
qua te quero proseucha?" Juvenal Sat. III. yet. 296. They were situated
sometimes by the sides of rivers, Acts 16:13, or by the sea-side, Antiq.
B. XIV. ch. 10. sect. 23. So did the seventy-two interpreters go to pray
every morning by the sea-side before they went to their work, B. XII.
ch. 2. sect. 12.

[12] Gr. Galatia, and so everywhere.

[13] Whether this Somorrhon, or Somorrha, ought not to be here written
Gomorrha, as some MSS. in a manner have it, [for the place meant by
Josephus seems to be near Segor, or Zoar, at the very south of the Dead
Sea, hard by which stood Sodom and Gomorrha,] cannot now be certainly
determined, but seems by no means improbable.

[14] This excellent prayer of Elisha is wanting in our copies, 2
Kings 2:21, 22, though it be referred to also in the Apostolical
Constitutions, B. VII. ch. 37., and the success of it is mentioned in
them all.

[15] See the note on B. V. ch. 13. sect. 6.

[16] Of these Roman affairs and tumults under Galba, Otho, and
Vitellius, here only touched upon by Josephus, see Tacitus, Suelonius,
and Dio, more largely. However, we may observe with Ottius, that
Josephus writes the name of the second of them not Otto, with many
others, but Otho, with the coins. See also the note on ch. 11. sect. 4.

[17] Some of the ancients call this famous tree, or grove, an oak
others, a turpentine tree, or grove. It has been very famous in all the
past ages, and