and Sadducces in apprehending the apostles.

Joseph. de Bell. lib. ii. c. 17. sect. 2. "And at the temple, Eleazar, the son of Ananias the high-priest, a young man of a bold and resolute disposition, then captain, persuaded those who performed the sacred ministrations, not to receive the gift or sacrifice of any stranger."

"Then

XIII. [p. 225.] Acts, xxv. 12. Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Cæsar? unto Cæsar shalt thou go." That it was usual for the Roman presidents to have a council, consisting of their friends, and other chief Romans in the province, appears expressly in the following passage of Cicero's oration against Verres :-" Illud negare posses, aut nunc negabis, te, concilio tuo dimisso, viris primariis, qui in consilio C. Sacerdotis fuerant, tibique esse volebant, remotis, de re judicatâ judicâsse?"

"And (at

XIV. [p. 235.] Acts, xvi. 13. Philippi) on the Sabbath, we went out of

the city by a river-side, where prayer was wont to be made," or where a goσux oratory, or place of prayer, was allowed. The particularity to be remarked, is the situation of the place where prayer was wont to be made, viz. by a river-side.

Philo, describing the conduct of the Jews of Alexandria, on a certain public occasion, relates of them, that, "early in the morning, flocking out of the gates of the city, they go to the neighbouring shores (for the goreva were destroyed), and, standing in a most pure place, they lift up their voices with one accord*.”

Josephus gives us a decree of the city. of Halicarnassus, permitting the Jews to build oratories; a part of which decree runs thus: "We ordain, that the Jews, who are willing, men and women, do observe the Sabbaths, and perform sacred rites according to the Jewish laws, and build oratories by the sea-sidet."

*Philo in Flacc. p. 382.

Joseph. Antiq. lib. xiv. c. 10. sect. 24.

Tertullian, among other Jewish rites and customs, such as feasts, sabbaths, fasts, and unleavened bread, mentions" orationes litorales," that is, prayers by the river-side*.

XV. [p. 255.] Acts, xxvi. 5. “After the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee."

Joseph. de Bell. lib. i. c. 5. sect. 2. “The Pharisees were reckoned the most religious of any of the Jews, and to be the most exact and skilful in explaining the laws."

In the original, there is an agreement not only in the sense but in the expression, it being the same Greek adjective, which is rendered" strait" in the Acts, and “exact” in Josephus.

"The

XVI. [p. 255.] Mark, vii. 3, 4. Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; and niany other things there be which they have received to hold.”

* Tertull. ad Nat. lib. i. c. 13.

Joseph. Antiq. lib. xiii. c. 10. sect. 6. "The Pharisees have delivered to the people many institutions, as received from the fathers, which are not written in the law of Moses."

"For

XVII. [p. 259.] Acts, xxiii. 8. the Sadducees say, that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both."

Joseph. de Bell. lib. ii. c. 8. sect. 14. "They (the Pharisees) believe every soul to be immortal, but that the soul of the good only passes into another body, and that the soul of the wicked is punished with eternal punishment." On the other hand (Antiq. lib. xviii. c. i. sect. 4.), "ItTM

is the opinion of the Sadducees, that souls perish with the bodies."

XVIII. [p. 268.] Acts, v. 17.

"Then

the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and were filled with indignation." Saint Luke here intimates, that the

high priest was a Sadducee; which is a character one would not have expected to meet with in that station. This circumstance, remarkable as it is, was not however without examples.

Joseph. Antiq. lib. xiii. c. 10. sect. 6, 7. "John Hyrcanus, high priest of the Jews, forsook the Pharisees upon a disgust, and joined himself to the party of the Sadducees.” This high priest died one hundred and seven years before the Christian

æra.

Again, (Antiq. lib. xx. c. 8. sect. 1.): "This Ananus the younger, who, as we have said just now, had received the highpriesthood, was fierce and haughty in his behaviour, and, above all men, bold and daring, and, moreover, was of the sect of the Sadducees. This high priest lived little more than twenty years after the transaction in the Acts.

XIX. [p. 282.] Luke, ix. 51.

came to

"And it

pass, when the time was come that