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Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, Books XI–XX
William Whiston (1737) · Edition commentary
BOOK XII. Containing The Interval Of A Hundred And Seventy Years.—From The Death Of Alexander The Great To The Death Of Judas Maccabeus. — FOOTNOTES (part 2)
senators of Rome was then just three hundred and twenty, is, I think, only known from 1 Macc. 8:15.]
[Whiston / edition note] 28 (return) [ This subscription is wanting 1 Macc. 8:17, 29, and must be the words of Josephus, who by mistake thought, as we have just now seen, that Judas was at this time high priest, and accordingly then reckoned his brother Jonathan to be the general of the army, which yet he seems not to have been till after the death of Judas.]
[Whiston / edition note] 29 (return) [ That this copy of Josephus, as he wrote it, had here not one thousand, but three thousand, with 1 Macc 9:5, is very plain, because though the main part ran away at first, even in Josephus, as well as in 1 Macc. 9:6, yet, as there, so here, eight hundred are said to have remained with Judas, which would be absurd, if the whole number had been no more than one thousand.]
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