much the
same that John the Baptist gave, Luke 3:14, "Do violence to no man,
neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages." Whence Dr.
Hudson confirms this conjecture, that Josephus, in some things, was,
even now, a follower of John the Baptist, which is no way improbable.
See the note on sect. 2.]

[Footnote 20: We here learn the practice of the Jews, in the days of
Josephus, to inquire into the characters of witnesses before they were
admitted; and that their number ought to be three, or two at the
least, also exactly as in the law of Moses, and in the Apostolical
Constitutions, B. II. ch. 37. See Horeb Covenant Revived, page 97, 98.]

[Footnote 21: This appeal to the whole body of the Galileans by
Josephus, and the testimony they gave him of integrity in his conduct
as their governor, is very like that appeal and testimony in the case of
the prophet Samuel, 1 Samuel 12:1-5, and perhaps was done by Josephus in
imitation of him.]

[Footnote 22: It is worth noting here, that there was now a great
Proseucha, or place of prayer, in the city of Tiberias itself, though
such Proseucha used to be out of cities, as the synagogues were within
them. Of them, see Le Moyne on Polycarp's Epistle, page 76. It is also
worth our remark, that the Jews, in the days of Josephus, used to dine
at the sixth hour, or noon; and that in obedience to their notions of
the law of Moses also.]

[Footnote 23: One may observe here, that this lay Pharisee, Ananias,
is we have seen he was, sect. 39, took upon him to appoint a fast at
Tiberias, and was obeyed; though indeed it was not out of religion, but
knavish policy.]

[Footnote 24: The character of this history of Justus of Tiberias,
the rival of our Josephus, which is now lost, with its only remaining
fragment, are given us by a very able critic, Photius, who read that
history. It is in the 33rd code of his Bibliotheca, and runs thus: "I
have read [says Photius] the chronology of Justus of Tiberias, whose
title is this, [Footnote The Chronology of] the Kings of Judah which
succeeded one another. This [Justus] came out of the city of Tiberias
in Galilee. He begins his history from Moses, and ends it not till the
death of Agrippa, the seventh [ruler] of the family of Herod, and the
last king of the Jews; who took the government under Claudius, had it
augmented under Nero, and still more augmented by Vespasian. He died
in the third year of Trajan, where also his history ends. He