2,) about two years before, had obtained the pardon and release of some Jewish priests, who were prisoners at Rome.] [Footnote 41: The learned Dr.Lardner (Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, vol ii.p.102, 103) has proved that the name of Galilaeans was a very ancient, and perhaps the primitive appellation of the Christians.] [Footnote 42: Joseph.Antiquitat.xviii.1, 2.

Tillemont, Ruine des Juifs, p.

742 The sons of Judas were crucified in the time of Claudius.
His grandson Eleazar, after Jerusalem was taken, defended a strong fortress with 960 of his most desperate followers.

When the battering ram had made a breach, they turned their swords against their wives their children, and at length against their own breasts.

They dies to the last man.] [Footnote 42a: This conjecture is entirely devoid, not merely of verisimilitude, but even of possibility.