A N A GENERAL INDEX to the Whole. Ισορίας αρχαίας ἐξέρχεθαι μὴ κατανοει· ἐν αὐταῖς γὰρ ευρήσεις Bafil. Imp. ad Leon. fil. IN RECTO DE CVS LONDON: Printed for T. OSBORNE, in Gray's-Inn; A, MILLAR, in MDCCXLVII. 381.f.149. THE Univerfal History, FROM THE Earliest Account of Time. VOL. III. BOOK I. The ASIATIC History to the Time of CHA P. VII. SE C T. II. The religion, government, laws, customs, learning, art, and commerce, of the Jews. T ifh was a theocracy. HE inftitution of the Jewish religion and common- The Jew wealth is, by Mofes, attributed wholly to God; gofor which reafon, Jofephus makes no fcruple to vernment diftinguish the latter from all the other governments in the world, by the name of theocracy, or a government under the immediate command and direction of GOD: and indeed, though this theocracy has often varied under Mofes, Joshua, the judges, kings, and high-priests, and the divine authority differently interpofed during those revolutions, yet God was ftill looked upon as the fupreme monarch of the Ifraelites. We fhall fee, in the fequel of a Cont. Apion. lib. ii. their |