John Trapp on Luke 1:5

Verse 5. In the dayes of Herod] Herod a stranger, upon the death of Antigonus, last of the Maccabeans, by Augustus his favour, was made King of Judaea, and reigned 34. yeers. After [illegible: 1 word] and his sonnes death, Judaea was again reduced into a Roman Province; and the government thereof committed unto Pontius Pilate, then to Petronius, after him to Foelix, Festus, Albinus and Florus, whose cruelty provoked the Jewes to rebellion and warre, to their utter overthrow. Of the course of Abia] According to their weekly waitings at the Altar: 1 Chron. 24. God would not have his Ministers overwrought, though he require them to labour according to their strength, even unto lassitude. But how thanklesse is their labour, that do wilfully over-spend themselves!