ssador from the Jews, as Josephus here confesses, [as was
Apion for the Gentiles,] says, the Jews' ambassadors were themselves
no fewer than live, towards the end of his legation to Caius; which, if
there be no mistake in the copies, must be supposed the truth; nor, in
that case, would Josephus have contradicted so authentic a witness, had
he seen that account of Philo's; which that he ever did does not appear.

[30] This Alexander, the alabarch, or governor of the Jews, at
Alexandria, and brother to Philo, is supposed by Bishop Pearson, in Act.
Apost. p. 41,42, to be the same with that Alexander who is mentioned by
St. Luke, as of the kindred of the high priests, Acts 4:6.

[31] What Josephus here, and sect. 6, relates as done by the Jews seed
time, is in Philo, "not far off the time when the corn was ripe," who,
as Le Clerc notes, differ here one from the other. This is another
indication that Josephus, when he wrote this account, had not seen
Philo's Legat. ad Caiurn, otherwise he would hardly trove herein
differed from him.

[32] This. Publius Petronius was after this still president of Syria,
under Cladius, and, at the desire of Agrippa, published a severe decree
against the inhabitants of Dora, who, in a sort of intitiation of Caius,
had set op a statue of Claudius in a Jewish synagogue there. This decree
is extant, B. XIX. ch. 6. sect. 3, and greatly confirms the present
accounts of Josephus, as do the other decrees of Claudius, relating to
the like Jewish affairs, B. XIX. ch. 5. sect. 2, 3, to which I refer the
inquisitive reader.

[33] Josephus here uses the solemn New Testament words, the presence and
appearance of God, for the extraordinary manifestation of his power
and providence to Petronius, by sending rain in a time of distress,
immediately upon the resolution he had taken to preserve the temple
unpolluted, at the hazard of his own life, without any other miraculous
appearance at all in that case; which well deserves to be taken notice
of here, and greatly illustrates several texts, both in the Old and New
Testament.

[34] This behavior of Caius to Agrippa is very like that of Herod
Antipas, his uncle, to Herodias, Agrippa's sister, about it John the
Baptist, Matthew 14:6--11.

[35] The joining of the right hands was esteemed among the Peoians [and
Parthians] in particular a most inviolable obligation to fidelity, as
Dr. Hudson here observes, and refers to the commentary on Justin, B. XI.
ch. 15.,