[8.6] Γένος αρχιερατιχον, Acts i.; αρχιερεις in Josephus Ant. xx. viii. 8.
[8.7] Acts xv. 5; xxi. 20.
[8.8] Let us add that the reciprocal antipathy of Jesus and the Pharisees seems to have been exaggerated by the synoptical Evangelists, perhaps on account of the events which, at the time of the great war, led to the flight of the Christians beyond the Jordan. It cannot be denied that James, brother of the Lord, was pretty nearly a Pharisee.
[8.9] Acts v. 34, and following. See Life of Jesus.
[8.10] Acts vi. 8; vii. 59.
[8.11] Probably descendants of Jews who had been taken to Rome as slaves, and then freed. Philo, Leg. ad Caium, § 23; Tacitus, Ann. ii. 85.
[8.12] See Life of Jesus.
[8.13] Matt. xv. 2, and following; Mark vii. 3; Gal. i. 14.
[8.14] Compare Gal. iii. 19; Heb. ii. 2; Jos. Ant. XV. v. 3. It was supposed that God Himself had not revealed Himself in the theophanies of the ancient law, but that he had substituted in his place a sort of intermediary, the maleak Jehovah. See the Hebrew dictionaries on the word מלאך.
[8.15] Deut. xvii. 7.