e inserted in brackets this high priest Azarias, though
he be omitted in all Josephus's copies, out of the Jewish chronicle,
Seder Olam, of how little authority soever I generally esteem such late
Rabbinical historians, because we know from Josephus himself, that the
number of the high priests belonging to this interval was eighteen,
Antiq. B. XX. ch. 10., whereas his copies have here but seventeen. Of
this character of Baruch, the son of Neriah, and the genuineness of
his book, that stands now in our Apocrypha, and that it is really a
canonical book, and an appendix to Jeremiah, see Authent. Rec. Part I.
p. 1--11.

[15] Herodotus says, this king of Egypt [Pharaoh Hophra, or Apries]
was slain by the Egyptians, as Jeremiah foretold his slaughter by his
enemies, Jeremiah 44:29, 30, and that as a sign of the destruction
of Egypt [by Nebuchadnezzar]. Josephus says, this king was slain by
Nebuchadnezzar himself.

[16] We see here that Judea was left in a manner desolate after the
captivity of the two tribes and was not I with foreign colonies, perhaps
as an indication of Providence that the Jews were to repeople it without
opposition themselves. I also esteem the latter and present desolate
condition of the same country, without being repeopled by foreign
colonies, to be a like indication, that the same Jews are hereafter
to repeople it again themselves, at their so long expected future
restoration.

[17] That Daniel was made one of these eunuchs of which Isaiah
prophesied, Isaiah 39:7, and the three children his companions also,
seems to me plain, both here in Josephus, and in our copies of Daniel,
Daniel 1:3, 6-11, 18, although it must be granted that some married
persons, that had children, were sometimes called eunuchs, in a general
acceptation for courtiers, on account that so many of the ancient
courtiers were real eunuchs. See Genesis 39:1.

[18] Of this most remarkable passage in Josephus concerning the "stone
cut out of the mountain, and destroying the image," which he would not
explain, but intimated to be a prophecy of futurity, and probably not
safe for him to explain, as belonging to the destruction of the Roman
empire by Jesus Christ, the true Messiah of the Jews, take the words
of Hayercamp, ch. 10. sect. 4: "Nor is this to be wondered at, that he
would not now meddle with things future, for he had no mind to provoke
the Romans, by speaking of the destruction of that city which they
called the Eternal Cit