is so, I suppose, at this day; and that particularly
for an eminent mart or meeting of merchants there every year, as the
travelers inform us.

[18] Puetonius differs hardly three days from Josephus, and says Otho
perished on the ninety-fifth day of his reign. In Anthon. See the note
on ch. 11. sect. 4.

[19] This beginning and ending the observation of the Jewish seventh
day, or sabbath, with a priest's blowing of a trumpet, is remarkable,
and no where else mentioned, that I know of. Nor is Reland's conjecture
here improbable, that this was the very place that has puzzled our
commentators so long, called "Musach Sabbati," the "Covert of the
Sabbath," if that be the true reading, 2 Kings 16:18, because here the
proper priest stood dry, under a "covering," to proclaim the beginning
and ending of every Jewish sabbath.

[20] The Roman authors that now remain say Vitellius had children,
whereas Josephus introduces here the Roman soldiers in Judea saying he
had none. Which of these assertions was the truth I know not.
Spanheim thinks he hath given a peculiar reason for calling Vitellius
"childless," though he really had children, Diss. de Num. p. 649, 650;
to which it appears very difficult to give our assent.

[21] This brother of Vespasian was Flavius Sabinus, as Suetonius informs
us, in Vitell. sect. 15, and in Vespas. sect. 2. He is also named by
Josephus presently ch. 11. sect; 4.

[22] It is plain by the nature of the thing, as well as by Josephus and
Eutropius, that Vespasian was first of all saluted emperor in Judea, and
not till some time afterward in Egypt. Whence Tacitus's and Suetonius's
present copies must be correct text, when they both say that he was
first proclaimed in Egypt, and that on the calends of July, while they
still say it was the fifth of the Nones or Ides of the same July before
he was proclaimed in Judea. I suppose the month they there intended
was June, and not July, as the copies now have it; nor does Tacitus's
coherence imply less. See Essay on the Revelation, p. 136.

[23] Here we have an authentic description of the bounds and
circumstances of Egypt, in the days of Vespasian and Titus.

[24] As Daniel was preferred by Darius and Cyrus, on account of his
having foretold the destruction of the Babylonian monarchy by their
means, and the consequent exaltation of the Medes and Persians, Daniel
5:6 or rather, as Jeremiah, when he was a prisoner, was set at liberty,
and honorably treated b