[14.16] Ibid. XIX. viii. 1.
[14.17] Suetonius, Caius, 22, 26, 35; Dion Cassius, lix. 24; lx. 8. Tacitus, Ann. xi. 8. As a type of the part these little Eastern Kings played, study the career of Herod Agrippa I. in Josephus (Ant. xviii. and xix.) Compare Horace, Sat. I. vii.
[14.18] Supra.
[14.19] Acts xii. 3.
[14.20] Ibid. xii. 1, and following.
[14.21] James was in fact beheaded, and not stoned to death.
[14.22] Acts xii. 3, and following.
[14.23] Ibid. xii. 9, 11. The account in the Acts is so lively and just, that it is difficult to find any place in it for any prolonged legendary elaboration.
[14.24] Jos. Ant. xix. viii. 2; Acts xii. 18, 23.
[14.25] Ibid. xix. vii. 4.