miffo, viris primariis, qui in confilio C, Sa cerdotis fuerant, tibique effe volebant, remotis, de re judicatâ judicâffe ?"! 1 "And (at XIV. (p. 235.) Acts xvi. 13. Philippi) on the fabbath, we went out of the city by a river fide, where prayer was wont to be made," or where a profeucha, oratory, or place of prayer, was allowed. The particularity to be remarked, is the fituation of the place where prayer was wont to be made, viz. by a river fide. Philo, defcribing the conduct of the Jews of Alexandria, upon a certain public occafion, relates of them, that, "early in the morning, flocking out of the gates of the city, they go to the neighbouring shores (for the profeucha were deftroyed), and, ftanding in a most pure place, they lift up their voices with one accord*. 3 * 1 Halicar Halicarnaffus, 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 obferve the fabbaths, and perform facred rites according to the Jewish laws, and build oratories by the fea-fide*." Tertullian, among other Jewish rites and customs, such as feafts, fabbaths, fafts, and unleavened bread, mentions "orationes litorales," that is, prayers by the river fide †. "After the XV. (p. 255.) Acts xxvi. 5. moft ftraiteft fect of our religion, I lived a Pharifee." "The Jof. de Bell. lib. i. c. 5, fec. 2. Pharifees 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 Jof. Ant. lib. xiv. c. 10, fec. 24. not not only in the fenfe but in the expreffion, it being the fame Greek adjective, which is rendered" ftrait" in the Acts, and "exact" in Jofephus. "The XVI. (p. 255.) Mark viii. 3, 4. Pharifees and all the Jews, except they wash, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; and many other things there be which they have received to hold.' "The Jos. Ant. lib. xiii. c. 10, sec. 6. Pharifees 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 fay, that there is no refurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharifees confefs both." Jof. de Bell, lib. ii. c. 8, fec. 14. "They (the Pharifees) believe every foul to be immortal, but that the foul of the good only passes into another body, and the foul of the wicked is punished with eternal punish ment. On the other hand, Ant. lib. xviii. c. 1, fec. 4. "It is the opinion of the Sadducees that fouls perish with the bodies.” "Then XVIII. (p. 268.) Acts v. 17. the High Prieft rofe up, and all they that were with him, which is the fect of the Sadducees, and were filled with indignation." St. Luke here intimates that the High Prieft was a Sadducee, which is a character one would not have expected to meet with in that ftation. This circumftance, remarkable as it is, was not however, without examples, Jof. Ant. lib. xiii. c. 10, fec. 6, 7. "John Hyrcanus, High Prieft of the Jews, forfook the Pharifees upon a disgust, and joined himself to the party of the Sadducees." This High Prieft died one hundred and feven years before the Chriftian æra, Again, (Ant. lib. xx. c. 8, fec. 1.) "This Ananus the younger, who, as we have faid just juft now, had received the high priesthood, was fierce and haughty in his behaviour, and above all men bold and daring; and, moreover, was of the fect of the Sadducees." This High Prieft lived little more than twenty years after the tranfaction in the Acts. XIX. (p. 282.) Luke ix. 51. "And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he fteadfastly fet his face to go to Jerufalem, and fent meffengers before his face. And they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him, and they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerufalem." "It was Jof. Ant. lib. xx. c. 5, fec. 1. the cuftom of the Galileans, who went up to the holy city at the feafts, to travel through the country of Samaria. As they were in their journey, fome inhabitants of the village called Ginea, which lies on the borders of Samaria and the great plain, falling |