an. B. XVII,; Grot. in
Luc. ii. 36; and Resports. ad Consult. Cassand. p. 44; and Cotelet.
in Constit. B. VI. sect. 17. And note, that Tertullian owns this law
against second marriages of the clergy had been once at least executed
in his time; and heavily complains elsewhere, that the breach thereof
had not been always punished by the catholics, as it ought to have been.
Jerome, speaking of the ill reputation of marrying twice, says, that no
such person could be chosen into the clergy in his days; which Augustine
testifies also; and for Epiphanius, rather earlier, he is clear and full
to the same purpose, and says that law obtained over the whole catholic
church in his days,--as the places in the forecited authors inform us.

[22] Dr. Hudson here takes notice, out of Seneca, Epistle V. that this
was the custom of Tiberius, to couple the prisoner and the soldier that
guarded him together in the same chain.

[23] Tiberius his own grandson, and Caius his brother Drusus's grandson.

[24] So I correct Josephus's copy, which calls Germanicus his brother,
who was his brother's son.

[25] This is a known thing among the Roman historians and poets, that
Tiberius was greatly given to astrology and divination.

[26] This name of a lion is often given to tyrants, especially by
the such Agrippa, and probably his freed-man Marsyas, in effect were,
Ezekiel 19:1, 9; Esther 4:9 2 Timothy 4:17. They are also sometimes
compared to or represented by wild beasts, of which the lion is the
principal, Daniel 7:3, 8; Apoc. 13:1, 2.

[27] Although Caius now promised to give Agrippa the tetrarchy of
Lysanias, yet was it not actually conferred upon him till the reign of
Claudius, as we learn, Antiq. B. XIX, ch. 5. sect. 1.

[28] Regarding instances of the interpositions of Providence, as have
been always very rare among the other idolatrous nations, but of old
very many among the posterity of Abraham, the worshippers of the true
God; nor do these seem much inferior to those in the Old Testament,
which are the more remarkable, because, among all their other
follies and vices, the Jews were not at this time idolaters; and the
deliverances here mentioned were done in order to prevent their relapse
into that idolatry.

[29] Josephus here assures us that the ambassadors from Alexandria to
Caius were on each part no more than three in number, for the Jews, and
for the Gentiles, which are but six in all; whereas Philo, who was the
principal amba