have been dispersed ever since over all the world, to attest his truth and their own obdurate blindness, till the happy time comes when the veil shall be taken off their eyes. When that will be, is one of those secrets which God has been pleased to leave as yet unrevealed, and which it would be vain and presumptuous to search too curiously after. After the reduction of Jerusalem and Judea, Agrippa and his sister retired to Rome, probably with Titus, who was excessive fond of both, but especially of Berenice. We have seen, through the course of this last war, how serviceable the brother had been to that general, accompanying him in person, and assisting him with men and ammunition, for which we were told Titus got his kingdom enlarged by the emperor, and procured him prætorian honours. But his extraordinary friendship for that prince flowed chiefly from his special fondness for his sister, as if she had been his real wife. Titus, nevertheless, had promised her marriage, and would in all probability have kept his word, had he not found that the Romans were wholly averse from it, partly on account of her being a Jewess, and partly on that of her royal descent. To pave himself, therefore, the way to the empire, he was forced to discard her, in opposition to both their inclinations. What became of her afterwards is not worth enquiring. As for Agrippa, he was the last of the Herodian race that bore the royal title, and is supposed to have died at Rome about the seventieth year of his age, and in the ninetieth of Jesus Christ. Josephus has this remarkable saying on the Herodian line, that they all failed within a hundred years, though they were at first so numerous, as we have seen them in the genealogy of Herod the Great. We have already had occasion to mention the number of the slain, as well as of the prisoners, according to Josephus. A curious author has since taken the pains to make a fresh computation out of him of all that perished in the several places throughout that kingdom, and out of it from the beginning to the conclusion of the war, in which we believe our readers will be glad to see the whole amount of the several bloody articles, as it were, at one view. They are as follows: According to this account, the whole amounts to 1,337,490; besides a vast multitude that died in the caves, woods, wildernesses, common sewers, in banishment. and many other ways, of whom no computation could be made; and ten thousand that were slain at Jotapata more than our author has reckoned. For Josephus mentious expressly forty thousand, but he only thirty thousand. INDE X. V. Our Lord's ministry, from the imprisonment of John the Baptist to the VI. From the Sermon on the Mount to the first mission of the apostles....... ...154 VII. From the first to the second mission of the apostles... VIII. From the sending out of the apostles by pairs, to the Transfiguration.......207 IX. From the Transfiguration to the Feast of Dedication... X. From the Feast of Dedication to the resurrection of Lazarus... XI. From the resurrection of Lazarus, till our Lord's public entry into Jeru- XII. The discourses and transactions of our Lord, from his public entry into Jeru- salem till Judas covenanted with the chief priests to betray him.............. XIII. The discourses and transactions of our Lord at his last passover......... |