[Footnote 12: How Josephus could say here that the Jewish laws forbade
them to "spoil even their enemies," while yet, a little before his time,
our Savior had mentioned it as then a current maxim with them, "Thou
shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy," Matthew 5:43, is worth
our inquiry. I take it that Josephus, having been now for many years an
Ebionite Christian, had learned this interpretation of the law of Moses
from Christ, whom he owned for the true Melah, as it follows in the
succeeding verses, which, though he might not read in St. Matthew's
Gospel, yet might he have read much the same exposition in their own
Ebionite or Nazarene Gospel itself; of which improvements made by
Josephus, after he was become a Christian, we have already had several
examples in this his life, sect. 3, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, and shall
have many more therein before its conclusion, as well as we have them
elsewhere in all his later writings.]

[Footnote 13: Here we may observe the vulgar Jewish notion of
witchcraft, but that our Josephus was too wise to give any countenance
to it.]

[Footnote 14: In this section, as well as in the 18 and 33. those small
vessels that sailed on the sea of Galilee, are called by Josephus, i.e.
plainly ships; so that we need not wander at our evangelists, who still
call them ships; nor ought we to render them boats, as some do, Their
number was in all 230, as we learn from our author elsewhere. Jewish
War. B. II. ch. 21. sect. 8.]

[Footnote 15: Part of these fortifications on Mount Tabor may be those
still remaining, and which were seen lately by Mr. Maundrel. See his
Travels, p. 112.]

[Footnote 16: This Gamaliel may be the very same that is mentioned
by the rabbins in the Mishna, in Juchasin, and in Porta Mosis, as is
observed in the Latin notes. He might be also that Gamaliel II., whose
grandfather was Gamaliel I., who is mentioned in Acts 5:34, and at whose
feet St. Paul was brought up, Acts 22:3. See Prid. at the year 449.]

[Footnote 17: This Jonathan is also taken notice of in the Latin notes,
as the same that is mentioned by the rabbins in Porta Mosis.]

[Footnote 18: This I take to be the first of Josephus's remarkable or
divine dreams, which were predictive of the great things that afterwards
came to pass; of which see more in the note on Antiq. B. III. ch. 8.
sect. 9. The other is in the War, B. III. ch. 8. sect. 3, 9.]

[Footnote 19: Josephus's directions to his soldiers here are