on the
breaking out of the war.

[19] This treacherous and barbarous murder of the good high priest
Jonathan, by the contrivance of this wicked procurator, Felix, was the
immediate occasion of the ensuing murders by the Sicarii or ruffians,
and one great cause of the following horrid cruelties and miseries of
the Jewish nation, as Josephus here supposes; whose excellent reflection
on the gross wickedness of that nation, as the direct cause of their
terrible destruction, is well worthy the attention of every Jewish and
of every Christian reader. And since we are soon coming to the catalogue
of the Jewish high priests, it may not be amiss, with Reland, to insert
this Jonathan among them, and to transcribe his particular catalogue
of the last twenty-eight high priests, taken out of Josephus, and begin
with Ananelus, who was made by Herod the Great. See Antiq. B. XV. ch. 2.
sect. 4, and the note there. 1. Ananelus. 2. Aristobulus. 3. Jesus,
the son of Fabus. 4. Simon, the son of Boethus. 5. Marthias, the son
of Theophiltu. 6. Joazar, the son of Boethus. 7. Eleazar, the son of
Boethus. 8. Jesus, the son of Sic. 9. [Annas, or] Ananus, the son of
Seth. 10. Ismael, the son of Fabus. 11. Eleazar, the son of Ananus. 12.
Simon, the son of Camithus. 13. Josephus Caiaphas, the son-in-law to
Ananus. 14. Jonathan, the son of Ananus. 15. Theophilus, his brother,
and son of Ananus. 16. Simon, the son of Boethus. 17. Matthias, the
brother of Jonathan, and son of Ananus. 18. Aljoneus. 19. Josephus,
the son of Camydus. 20. Ananias, the son of Nebedeus. 21. Jonathas. 22.
Ismael, the son of Fabi. 23. Joseph Cabi, the son of Simon. 24. Ananus,
the son of Artanus. 25. Jesus, the son of Damnetas. 26. Jesus, the son
of Gamaliel. 27. Matthias, the son of Theophilus. 28. Phannias, the son
of Samuel. As for Ananus and Joseph Caiaphas, here mentioned about
the middle of this catalogue, they are no other than those Annas and
Caiaphas so often mentioned in the four Gospels; and that Ananias, the
son of Nebedeus, was that high priest before whom St. Paul pleaded his
own cause, Acts 24.

[20] Of these Jewish impostors and false prophets, with many other
circumstances and miseries of the Jews, till their utter destruction,
foretold by our Savior, see Lit. Accompl. of Proph. p. 58-75. Of this
Egyptian impostor, and the number of his followers, in Josephus, see
Acts 21:38.

[21] The wickedness here was very peculiar and extraordinary, that the
high pri