is very
concise in his language, and slightly passes over those affairs that
were most necessary to be insisted on; and being under the Jewish
prejudices, as indeed he was himself also a Jew by birth, he makes not
the least mention of the appearance of Christ, or what things happened
to him, or of the wonderful works that he did. He was the son of a
certain Jew, whose name was Pistus. He was a man, as he is described by
Josephus, of a most profligate character; a slave both to money and
to pleasures. In public affairs he was opposite to Josephus; and it is
related, that he laid many plots against him; but that Josephus, though
he had his enemy frequently under his power, did only reproach him in
words, and so let him go without further punishment. He says also, that
the history which this man wrote is, for the main, fabulous, and chiefly
as to those parts where he describes the Roman war with the Jews, and
the taking of Jerusalem."]

[Footnote 25: Here Josephus, a priest, honestly confesses that he did
that at the command of Vespasian, which he had before told us was not
lawful for a priest to do by the law of Moses, Antiq. B. III. ch. 12.
sect. 2. I mean, the taking a captive woman to wife. See also Against
Apion, B. I. sect. 7. But he seems to have been quickly sensible that
his compliance with the commands of an emperor would not excuse him, for
he soon put her away, as Reland justly observes here.]

[Footnote 27: Of this most remarkable clause, and its most important
consequences, see Essay on the Old Testament, page 193--195.]

[Footnote 28: Of this Epaphroditus, see the note on the Preface to the
Antiquities.]

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