[183] Book VIII. chap. iii. 5.
[184] Antiq., Book VI. chap. viii. 2.
[185] Note to Whiston’s Josephus, loc. cit.
[186] 1 Sam. xvi. 15.
[187] Religious Encyclopædia, vol. ii. p. 1454.
[188] Medica Sacra, p. 40 et seq.
[189] Arabian Nights, vol. ii. p. 4.
[190] Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 1, 3, 4, 12. From the many references to disease in this book, it has been supposed by some commentators that the author was a physician. The writer of the article on “Medicine,” in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, remarks that “if he was so, the power of mind and wide range of observation shown in this work, would give a favourable impression of the standard of practitioners; if he was not, the great general popularity of the study and practice may be inferred from its thus becoming a common topic of general advice offered by a non-professional writer.”
[191] Wars of the Jews, Book II. chap, viii; Antiq., xviii. 1, 5.
[192] See Lightfoot on the Colossians.