they here give
victory to Nicanor, contrary to the words following, which imply that he
who was beaten fled into the citadel, which for certain belonged to the
city of David, or to Mount Zion, and was in the possession of Nicanor's
garrison, and not of Judas's. As also it is contrary to the express
words of Josephus's original author, 1 Macc. 7:32, who says that Nicanor
lost about five thousand men, and fled to the city of David.

[27] This account of the miserable death of Alcimus, or Jac-mus, the
wicked high priest, [the first that was not of the family of the high
priests, and made by a vile heathen, Lysias,] before the death of Judas,
and of Judas's succession to him as high priest, both here, and at the
conclusion of this book, directly contradicts 1 Macc. 9:54-57, which
places his death after the death of Judas, and says not a syllable of
the high priesthood of Judas. How well the Roman histories agree to this
account of the conquests and powerful condition of the Romans at this
time, see the notes in Havercamp's edition; only that the number of the
senators of Rome was then just three hundred and twenty, is, I think,
only known from 1 Macc. 8:15.

[28] This subscription is wanting 1 Macc. 8:17, 29, and must be the
words of Josephus, who by mistake thought, as we have just now seen,
that Judas was at this time high priest, and accordingly then reckoned
his brother Jonathan to be the general of the army, which yet he seems
not to have been till after the death of Judas.

[29] That this copy of Josephus, as he wrote it, had here not one
thousand, but three thousand, with 1 Macc 9:5, is very plain, because
though the main part ran away at first, even in Josephus, as well as
in 1 Macc. 9:6, yet, as there, so here, eight hundred are said to have
remained with Judas, which would be absurd, if the whole number had been
no more than one thousand.

BOOK 13 FOOTNOTES

[1] This Alexander Bala, who certainly pretended to be the son of
Antiochus Epiphanes, and was owned for such by the Jews and Romans,
and many others, and yet is by several historians deemed to be a
counterfeit, and of no family at all, is, however, by Josephus believed
to have been the real son of that Antiochus, and by him always spoken
of accordingly. And truly, since the original contemporary and authentic
author of the First Book of Maccabees [10:1] calls him by his father's
name, Epiphanes, and says he was the son of Antiochus, I suppose th