And the people gave a shout
At the end of the oration; these were flatterers, as Josephus
says in the place before referred to, who cried out one from
another, saluting him as God; saying, be merciful to us, hitherto
we have revered thee as a man, henceforward we confess thee
somewhat more excellent than mortal nature: and so it follows
here,
saying it is the voice of a God, and not of a
man;
the Vulgate Latin version reads, "the voices of God and not men";
and the Ethiopic version, "the city shouted in, or with the voice
of God", with the voice of man; as if this referred to the
acclamation of the people, and not the speech of the king; very
wrongly.