August 18, 2025 • 24 mins
Discover the fascinating insights of Josephus in this collection, featuring three compelling parts. (1) Against Apion serves as a robust two-volume defense of Judaism, contrasting its ancient roots with the more recent traditions of the Greeks. Josephus tackles anti-Judean claims made by the Greek writer Apion and addresses myths attributed to Manetho. (2) Discourse To The Greeks Concerning Hades explores Josephuss perspectives on the afterlife, countering the predominant beliefs of his Greco-Roman contemporaries. This discourse, while traditionally linked to Josephus, has been more accurately reassigned to the church father Hippolytus in later scholarship. (3) The Life of Josephus, penned around 94-99 CE, offers an autobiographical glimpse into the authors life, revisiting pivotal events of the War in response to criticisms from Justus of Tiberias. Immerse yourself in this rich tapestry of history, philosophy, and personal reflection.
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Part four of the Life of Josephus. This is a
LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivax dot org.
Recording by Simon Wainwright. The Life of Josephus by Flavius Josephus,
(00:27):
translated by William Wiston, Part four. When therefore silence was
made by the whole multitude, I spoke thus to them, Oh,
my countrymen, I refuse not to die, if justice so require. However,
I am desirous to tell you the truth of this
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matter before I die, For as I know that this
city of yours, Tarechi, was a city of great hospitalvitality,
and filled with abundance of such men as have left
their own countries and are come hither to be partakers
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of your fortune, whatever it be, I had a mind
to build walls about it out of this money for
which you are so angry with me, while yet it
was to be expended in building your own walls. Upon
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my saying this, the people of Tarchi and the strangers
cried out that they gave me thanks and desired me
to be of good courage. Although the Galileans and the
people of Tiberius continued their wrath against me, insomuch that
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there arose a tumult among them. While some threatened to
kill me and some bade me not to regard them.
But when I promised them that I would build them
walls at Tiberius and at other cities that wanted them,
they gave credit to what I promised and returned everyone
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to his own home. So I escaped beforementioned danger, beyond
all my hopes, and returned to my own house, accompanied
with my friends and twenty armed men. Also, however, these
robbers and other authors of this tumult, who were afraid
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on their own account lest I should punish them for
what they had done, took six hundred armed men and
came to the house where I abode in order to
set it on fire. When this their insult was told me,
I thought it indecent for me to run away, and
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I've resolved to expose myself to danger and to act
with some boldness. So I gave order to shut the
doors and went up into an upper room, and desired
that they would send in some of their men to
receive the money from the spoils, for I told them
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they would then have no occasion to be angry with me.
And when they had sent in one of the boldness
of them all, I had him whipped severely, and I
commanded that one of his hands should be cut off
and hung about his neck. And in this case was
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he put out to those that sent him, at which
procedure of mine. They were greatly affrighted and in no
small consternation, and were afraid that they should themselves be
served in like manner if they stayed there, For they
supposed that I had in the house more armed men
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than they had themselves. So they ran away immediately, while I,
by the use of this stratagem, escaped this their second
treacherous design against me. But there were still some that
irritated the multitude against me, and said that those great
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men that belonged to the king ought not to be
suffered to live if they would not change their religion
to the religion of those to whom they fled for safety.
They spake reproachfully of them also, and said that they
were wizards and such as called in the Romans upon them.
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So the multitude was soon deluded by such plausible pretenses
as were agreeable to them their own inclinations, and were
prevailed on by them. But when I was informed of this,
I instructed the multitude again that those who fled to
them for refuge ought not to be persecuted. I also
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laughed at the allegation about witchcraft, and told them that
the Romans would not maintain so many ten thousand soldiers
if they could overcome their enemies by wizards. Upon my
saying this, the people assented for a while, but they
returned again afterwards, as irritated by some ill people against
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the great men. Nay, they once made an assault upon
the house in which they dwelt at Tyrechis, in order
to kill them, which, when I was informed of, I
was afraid lest so hort a crime should take effect,
and nobody else would make that city their refuge anymore.
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I therefore came myself and some others with me to
the house where these great men lived, and locked the doors,
and had a trench drawn from their house leading to
the lake, and sent for a ship, and embarked therein
with them, and sailed to the confines of hippoes. I
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also paid them the value of their horses, nor in
such a flight could I have their horses brought to them.
I then dismissed them, and begged of them earnestly that
they would courageously bear I this distress which befell them.
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I was also myself I greatly displeased that I was
compelled to expose those that had fled to me to
go again into an enemy's country. Yet did I think
it more eligible that they should perish among the Romans,
if it should so happen, than in the country that
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was under my jurisdiction. However, they escaped at length, and
King Agrippa forgave them their offenses. And this was the
conclusion of what concerned these men. But for the inhabitants
of the city of Tiberius, they wrote to the king
and desired him to send them forces sufficient to be
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a guard to their country, for they were desirous to
come over to him. This was what they wrote to him.
But when I came to them, they desired me to
build their walls, as I had promised them to do,
for they had heard that the walls of Tarrechis were
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already built. I agreed to their proposal accordingly, and when
I had made preparation for the entire building. I gave
order to the architects to go to work. But on
the third day, when I was gone to Tarrichis, which
was thirty furlongs distance from Tiberius, it so fell out
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that some Roman horsemen were discovered on their march not
far from the city, which made it to be supposed
that the forces were come from the king, upon which
they shouted and lifted up their voices in commendations of
the king and in reproaches against me. Hereupon one came
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running to me and told me what their dispositions were,
and that they had resolved to revolt from me. Upon
hearing news, I was very much alarmed, for I had
already sent away my armed men from Tarrechi's to their
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own homes, because the next day was our sabbath, for
I would not have the people of Tarrechi's disturbed on
that day by a multitude of soldiers. And indeed, whenever
I sojourned at that city, I never took any particular
care for a guard about my own body, because I
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had frequent instances of the fidelity its inhabitants bore to me.
I had now about me no more than seven armed
men besides some friends, and was doubtful what to do,
for to send to recall my own forces, I did
not think proper, because the present day was almost over,
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and had those forces been with me, I could not
take up arms on the next day, because our laws
forbade us so to do, even though our necessity should
be very great. And if I should permit the people
of Tarici's and the strangers with them to guard the city,
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I saw that they would not be sufficient for that purpose,
and I perceived that I should be obliged to delay
my assistance a great while, for I thought with myself
that the forces that came from the king would prevent me,
and that I should be driven out of the city.
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I considered therefore, how to get clear of these forces
by a stratagem. So I immediately placed those my friends
of Tarci on whom I could best confide, at the gates,
to watch those very carefully who went out. Of those.
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I also called to me the heads of families, and
bade every one of them to seize upon a ship,
to go on board it, and to take a master
with them and follow him to the city of Tiberius.
I also myself went on board one of those ships
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with my friends and the seven armed men already mentioned,
and sailed for Tiberius. But now when the people of
Tiberius perceived that there were no forces come from the king,
and yet saw the whole lake full of ships, they
were in fear what would become of their city, and
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were greatly terrified as supposing that the ships were full
of men on board. So they then changed their minds
and threw down their weapons, and met me with their
wives and children, and made acclamations to me with great commendations.
For they imagined that I did not know their former
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inclinations to have been against me. So they persuaded me
to spare the city. But when I was come near enough,
I gave order to the masters of the ships to
cast anchor a good way off the land, that the
people of Tiberius might not perceive that the ships had
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no men on board. But I went nearer to the
people in one of the ships and rebuked them for
their folly, and that they were so fickle as without
any just occasion in the world to revote from their
fidelity to me. However, assured them that I would entirely
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forgive them for the time to come, if they would
send ten of the ring leaders of the multitude to me.
And when they complied readily with this proposal and sent
me the men forementioned, I put them on board a
ship and sent them away to Tachi's and ordered them
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to be kept in prison. And by this stratagem it
was that I gradually got all the Senate of Tiberias
into my power, and sent them to the city forementioned,
with many of the principal men among the populace, and
those not fewer in number than the other. But when
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the multitude saw into the great miseries they had brought themselves,
they desired me to punish the author of this sedition.
His name was Clitus, a young man, bold and rash
his undertakings. Now, since I thought it not agreeable in
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piety to put one of my own people to death,
and yet found it necessary to punish him, I ordered Levi,
one of my own guards, to go down to him
and cut off one of Clytus's hands. But as he
that was ordered to do this was afraid to go
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out of the ship alone among so great a multitude,
I was not willing that the Timoroseness of the soldiers
should appear to the people of Tiberius. So I called
to Clittus himself and said to him, since thou deservest
to lose both thine hands for thy ingratitude to me,
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but thou thine own executor, lest if thou refusest so
to be, thou undergo a worse punishment. And when he
earnestly begged of me to spare him one of his hands,
it was with difficulty that I granted it. So, in
order to prevent the loss of both his hands, he
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willingly took his sword and cut off his own left hand,
and this put it in to the sedition. Now the
men of Tiberius, after I was gone to Tarchia, perceived
what stratagem I had used against them, and they admired
how I had put an end to their foolish sedition
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without shedding of blood. But now, when I had sent
for some of those multitudes of the people of Tiberius
out of prison, among whom were Justice and his father Pistos,
I made them to sup with me, And during our
supper time I said to them that I knew the
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power of the Romans was superior to all others, but
did not say so publicly because of the robbers. So
I advised them to do as I did, and to
wait for a proper opportunity, and not to be uneasy
at my being their commander, for that they could not
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expect to have another who would use the like moderation
that I had done. I also put Justice in mind
how the Galileans had cut off his brother's hands before
ever I came to Jerusalem upon an accusation laid against them,
as if he had been a rogue and had forged
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some letters. As also how the people of Gamala in
a sedition had raised against the Babylonians after the departure
of Philip slew Chawrists, who was a kinsman of Philip,
and withal, how they had wisely punished Jesus, his brother,
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Justice's sister husband with death. When I had said this
to them during supper time, I in the morning ordered
Justice and all the rest that were in prison to
be loosed out of it and sent away. But before
this it happened that Philip, the son of Jossemus, went
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out of the citadel of Gamala. Upon the following occasion,
when Philip had been informed that Varus was put out
of his government by King Agrippa, and Equilias Modus, a
man that was of old, his friend and companion, was
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come to succeed him. He wrote to him and related
what turns of fortune he had had, and desired him
to forward the letters he sent to the king and Queen. Now,
when Motus had received these letters, he was exceedingly glad
and sent the letters to the King and Queen, who
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were then about Berytus. But when King Agrippa knew that
the story about Philip was false, for he had been
given out that the Jews had begun a war with
the Romans, and that this Philip had been their commander
in that war, he sent some horsemen to conduct Philip
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to him, And when he was come, he saluted him
very obligingly and showed him to the Roman commanders and
told them that this was the man of whom the
report had gone about, as if he had revolted from
the Romans. He also bid him to take some horsemen
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with him, and to go quickly to the city of
Gamala and bring out thence all his domestics, and to
restore the Babylonians to Bettinia again. He also gave it
him in charge to take all possible care that none
of his subject should be guilty of making any innovation. Accordingly,
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upon these directions from the King, he made haste to
do what he was commanded. Now there was one Joseph,
the son of a female physician, who excited a great
many young men to join with him. He also insolently
addressed himself to the principal persons at Gamala and persuaded
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them to revolt from the king and take up arms,
and gave them hopes that they should, by his means
recover their liberty. And some they forced into the service,
and those that would not acquiesce in what they had
resolved on, they salw. They also slew Charis, and with
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him Jesus, one of his kinsmen and the brother of
Justice of Tiberius. And as we have already said, those
of Gamala also wrote to me, desiring me to send
them an armed force and workmen to raise up the
walls of their city. Nor did I reject of their requests.
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The region of Galentius did also revolt from the king,
as far as the village Solima. I also built a
wall about Silesia and Sagane which are villages naturally of
very great strength. Moreover, I, in like manner, walled several
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villages of upper Galilee, though they were very rocky of themselves.
Their names were Jamnia and Maroth and a Kabert. I
also fortified in the lower Galilee the cities Tarichi, Tiberius, Sephoris,
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and the villages the Cave of Arbela, Bursobi, Sulomon, Jatapata,
k Farco, and Sigo, and Jeffa and Mount Tabor. I
also laid up a great quantity of corn in these places,
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and arms with all that might be for their security afterward.
But the hatred that John, the son of Levi bore
to me grew now more violent. While he could not
bear my prosperity with patients, so he proposed to himself
by all means possible, to make away with me, and
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built the walls of Geshalah, which was the place of
his nativity. He then sent his brother Simon and Jonathan,
the son of Cesena, and about one hundred armed men
to Jerusalem to Simon, the son of Gamomliel, in order
to persuade him to induce the commonalty of Jerusalem to
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take from me the government over the Galileans, and to
give their suffrages for conferring that authority upon him. This
Simon was of the city of Jerusalem, and of a
very noble family, of the sect of the Pharisees, which
were supposed to excel others in the accurate knowledge of
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the laws of their country. He was a man of
great wisdom and reason, and capable of rest story in
public affairs by his prudence when they were in an
ill posture. He was also an old friend and companion
of John, but at that time he had a difference
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with me. When therefore he had received such an exhortation,
he persuaded the high priests Annas and Jesus the son
of Gamala, and some others of the same seditious faction,
to cut me down. Now I was growing so great,
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and not to overlook me while I was aggrandizing myself
to the height of glory. And he said that it
would be for the advantage of the Galileans if I
were deprived of my government. There Annas also and his
friends desired them to make no delay about the matter.
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I should get the knowledge of what was doing too soon,
and should come and make an assault upon the city
with a great army. This was the Council of Simon.
But Artaenus, the high Priest, demonstrated to them that this
was not an easy thing to be done, because many
of the high priests and of the rulers of the
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people bore witness that I had acted like an excellent general,
and that it was the work of ill men to
accuse one against whom they had nothing to say. And
of Part four
Part four of the Life of Josephus. This is a
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Recording by Simon Wainwright. The Life of Josephus by Flavius Josephus,
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translated by William Wiston, Part four. When therefore silence was
made by the whole multitude, I spoke thus to them, Oh,
my countrymen, I refuse not to die, if justice so require. However,
I am desirous to tell you the truth of this
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matter before I die, For as I know that this
city of yours, Tarechi, was a city of great hospitalvitality,
and filled with abundance of such men as have left
their own countries and are come hither to be partakers
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of your fortune, whatever it be, I had a mind
to build walls about it out of this money for
which you are so angry with me, while yet it
was to be expended in building your own walls. Upon
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my saying this, the people of Tarchi and the strangers
cried out that they gave me thanks and desired me
to be of good courage. Although the Galileans and the
people of Tiberius continued their wrath against me, insomuch that
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there arose a tumult among them. While some threatened to
kill me and some bade me not to regard them.
But when I promised them that I would build them
walls at Tiberius and at other cities that wanted them,
they gave credit to what I promised and returned everyone
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to his own home. So I escaped beforementioned danger, beyond
all my hopes, and returned to my own house, accompanied
with my friends and twenty armed men. Also, however, these
robbers and other authors of this tumult, who were afraid
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on their own account lest I should punish them for
what they had done, took six hundred armed men and
came to the house where I abode in order to
set it on fire. When this their insult was told me,
I thought it indecent for me to run away, and
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I've resolved to expose myself to danger and to act
with some boldness. So I gave order to shut the
doors and went up into an upper room, and desired
that they would send in some of their men to
receive the money from the spoils, for I told them
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they would then have no occasion to be angry with me.
And when they had sent in one of the boldness
of them all, I had him whipped severely, and I
commanded that one of his hands should be cut off
and hung about his neck. And in this case was
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he put out to those that sent him, at which
procedure of mine. They were greatly affrighted and in no
small consternation, and were afraid that they should themselves be
served in like manner if they stayed there, For they
supposed that I had in the house more armed men
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than they had themselves. So they ran away immediately, while I,
by the use of this stratagem, escaped this their second
treacherous design against me. But there were still some that
irritated the multitude against me, and said that those great
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men that belonged to the king ought not to be
suffered to live if they would not change their religion
to the religion of those to whom they fled for safety.
They spake reproachfully of them also, and said that they
were wizards and such as called in the Romans upon them.
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So the multitude was soon deluded by such plausible pretenses
as were agreeable to them their own inclinations, and were
prevailed on by them. But when I was informed of this,
I instructed the multitude again that those who fled to
them for refuge ought not to be persecuted. I also
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laughed at the allegation about witchcraft, and told them that
the Romans would not maintain so many ten thousand soldiers
if they could overcome their enemies by wizards. Upon my
saying this, the people assented for a while, but they
returned again afterwards, as irritated by some ill people against
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the great men. Nay, they once made an assault upon
the house in which they dwelt at Tyrechis, in order
to kill them, which, when I was informed of, I
was afraid lest so hort a crime should take effect,
and nobody else would make that city their refuge anymore.
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I therefore came myself and some others with me to
the house where these great men lived, and locked the doors,
and had a trench drawn from their house leading to
the lake, and sent for a ship, and embarked therein
with them, and sailed to the confines of hippoes. I
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also paid them the value of their horses, nor in
such a flight could I have their horses brought to them.
I then dismissed them, and begged of them earnestly that
they would courageously bear I this distress which befell them.
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I was also myself I greatly displeased that I was
compelled to expose those that had fled to me to
go again into an enemy's country. Yet did I think
it more eligible that they should perish among the Romans,
if it should so happen, than in the country that
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was under my jurisdiction. However, they escaped at length, and
King Agrippa forgave them their offenses. And this was the
conclusion of what concerned these men. But for the inhabitants
of the city of Tiberius, they wrote to the king
and desired him to send them forces sufficient to be
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a guard to their country, for they were desirous to
come over to him. This was what they wrote to him.
But when I came to them, they desired me to
build their walls, as I had promised them to do,
for they had heard that the walls of Tarrechis were
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already built. I agreed to their proposal accordingly, and when
I had made preparation for the entire building. I gave
order to the architects to go to work. But on
the third day, when I was gone to Tarrichis, which
was thirty furlongs distance from Tiberius, it so fell out
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that some Roman horsemen were discovered on their march not
far from the city, which made it to be supposed
that the forces were come from the king, upon which
they shouted and lifted up their voices in commendations of
the king and in reproaches against me. Hereupon one came
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running to me and told me what their dispositions were,
and that they had resolved to revolt from me. Upon
hearing news, I was very much alarmed, for I had
already sent away my armed men from Tarrechi's to their
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own homes, because the next day was our sabbath, for
I would not have the people of Tarrechi's disturbed on
that day by a multitude of soldiers. And indeed, whenever
I sojourned at that city, I never took any particular
care for a guard about my own body, because I
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had frequent instances of the fidelity its inhabitants bore to me.
I had now about me no more than seven armed
men besides some friends, and was doubtful what to do,
for to send to recall my own forces, I did
not think proper, because the present day was almost over,
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and had those forces been with me, I could not
take up arms on the next day, because our laws
forbade us so to do, even though our necessity should
be very great. And if I should permit the people
of Tarici's and the strangers with them to guard the city,
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I saw that they would not be sufficient for that purpose,
and I perceived that I should be obliged to delay
my assistance a great while, for I thought with myself
that the forces that came from the king would prevent me,
and that I should be driven out of the city.
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I considered therefore, how to get clear of these forces
by a stratagem. So I immediately placed those my friends
of Tarci on whom I could best confide, at the gates,
to watch those very carefully who went out. Of those.
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I also called to me the heads of families, and
bade every one of them to seize upon a ship,
to go on board it, and to take a master
with them and follow him to the city of Tiberius.
I also myself went on board one of those ships
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with my friends and the seven armed men already mentioned,
and sailed for Tiberius. But now when the people of
Tiberius perceived that there were no forces come from the king,
and yet saw the whole lake full of ships, they
were in fear what would become of their city, and
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were greatly terrified as supposing that the ships were full
of men on board. So they then changed their minds
and threw down their weapons, and met me with their
wives and children, and made acclamations to me with great commendations.
For they imagined that I did not know their former
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inclinations to have been against me. So they persuaded me
to spare the city. But when I was come near enough,
I gave order to the masters of the ships to
cast anchor a good way off the land, that the
people of Tiberius might not perceive that the ships had
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no men on board. But I went nearer to the
people in one of the ships and rebuked them for
their folly, and that they were so fickle as without
any just occasion in the world to revote from their
fidelity to me. However, assured them that I would entirely
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forgive them for the time to come, if they would
send ten of the ring leaders of the multitude to me.
And when they complied readily with this proposal and sent
me the men forementioned, I put them on board a
ship and sent them away to Tachi's and ordered them
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to be kept in prison. And by this stratagem it
was that I gradually got all the Senate of Tiberias
into my power, and sent them to the city forementioned,
with many of the principal men among the populace, and
those not fewer in number than the other. But when
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the multitude saw into the great miseries they had brought themselves,
they desired me to punish the author of this sedition.
His name was Clitus, a young man, bold and rash
his undertakings. Now, since I thought it not agreeable in
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piety to put one of my own people to death,
and yet found it necessary to punish him, I ordered Levi,
one of my own guards, to go down to him
and cut off one of Clytus's hands. But as he
that was ordered to do this was afraid to go
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out of the ship alone among so great a multitude,
I was not willing that the Timoroseness of the soldiers
should appear to the people of Tiberius. So I called
to Clittus himself and said to him, since thou deservest
to lose both thine hands for thy ingratitude to me,
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but thou thine own executor, lest if thou refusest so
to be, thou undergo a worse punishment. And when he
earnestly begged of me to spare him one of his hands,
it was with difficulty that I granted it. So, in
order to prevent the loss of both his hands, he
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willingly took his sword and cut off his own left hand,
and this put it in to the sedition. Now the
men of Tiberius, after I was gone to Tarchia, perceived
what stratagem I had used against them, and they admired
how I had put an end to their foolish sedition
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without shedding of blood. But now, when I had sent
for some of those multitudes of the people of Tiberius
out of prison, among whom were Justice and his father Pistos,
I made them to sup with me, And during our
supper time I said to them that I knew the
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power of the Romans was superior to all others, but
did not say so publicly because of the robbers. So
I advised them to do as I did, and to
wait for a proper opportunity, and not to be uneasy
at my being their commander, for that they could not
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expect to have another who would use the like moderation
that I had done. I also put Justice in mind
how the Galileans had cut off his brother's hands before
ever I came to Jerusalem upon an accusation laid against them,
as if he had been a rogue and had forged
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some letters. As also how the people of Gamala in
a sedition had raised against the Babylonians after the departure
of Philip slew Chawrists, who was a kinsman of Philip,
and withal, how they had wisely punished Jesus, his brother,
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Justice's sister husband with death. When I had said this
to them during supper time, I in the morning ordered
Justice and all the rest that were in prison to
be loosed out of it and sent away. But before
this it happened that Philip, the son of Jossemus, went
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out of the citadel of Gamala. Upon the following occasion,
when Philip had been informed that Varus was put out
of his government by King Agrippa, and Equilias Modus, a
man that was of old, his friend and companion, was
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come to succeed him. He wrote to him and related
what turns of fortune he had had, and desired him
to forward the letters he sent to the king and Queen. Now,
when Motus had received these letters, he was exceedingly glad
and sent the letters to the King and Queen, who
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were then about Berytus. But when King Agrippa knew that
the story about Philip was false, for he had been
given out that the Jews had begun a war with
the Romans, and that this Philip had been their commander
in that war, he sent some horsemen to conduct Philip
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to him, And when he was come, he saluted him
very obligingly and showed him to the Roman commanders and
told them that this was the man of whom the
report had gone about, as if he had revolted from
the Romans. He also bid him to take some horsemen
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with him, and to go quickly to the city of
Gamala and bring out thence all his domestics, and to
restore the Babylonians to Bettinia again. He also gave it
him in charge to take all possible care that none
of his subject should be guilty of making any innovation. Accordingly,
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upon these directions from the King, he made haste to
do what he was commanded. Now there was one Joseph,
the son of a female physician, who excited a great
many young men to join with him. He also insolently
addressed himself to the principal persons at Gamala and persuaded
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them to revolt from the king and take up arms,
and gave them hopes that they should, by his means
recover their liberty. And some they forced into the service,
and those that would not acquiesce in what they had
resolved on, they salw. They also slew Charis, and with
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him Jesus, one of his kinsmen and the brother of
Justice of Tiberius. And as we have already said, those
of Gamala also wrote to me, desiring me to send
them an armed force and workmen to raise up the
walls of their city. Nor did I reject of their requests.
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The region of Galentius did also revolt from the king,
as far as the village Solima. I also built a
wall about Silesia and Sagane which are villages naturally of
very great strength. Moreover, I, in like manner, walled several
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villages of upper Galilee, though they were very rocky of themselves.
Their names were Jamnia and Maroth and a Kabert. I
also fortified in the lower Galilee the cities Tarichi, Tiberius, Sephoris,
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and the villages the Cave of Arbela, Bursobi, Sulomon, Jatapata,
k Farco, and Sigo, and Jeffa and Mount Tabor. I
also laid up a great quantity of corn in these places,
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and arms with all that might be for their security afterward.
But the hatred that John, the son of Levi bore
to me grew now more violent. While he could not
bear my prosperity with patients, so he proposed to himself
by all means possible, to make away with me, and
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built the walls of Geshalah, which was the place of
his nativity. He then sent his brother Simon and Jonathan,
the son of Cesena, and about one hundred armed men
to Jerusalem to Simon, the son of Gamomliel, in order
to persuade him to induce the commonalty of Jerusalem to
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take from me the government over the Galileans, and to
give their suffrages for conferring that authority upon him. This
Simon was of the city of Jerusalem, and of a
very noble family, of the sect of the Pharisees, which
were supposed to excel others in the accurate knowledge of
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the laws of their country. He was a man of
great wisdom and reason, and capable of rest story in
public affairs by his prudence when they were in an
ill posture. He was also an old friend and companion
of John, but at that time he had a difference
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with me. When therefore he had received such an exhortation,
he persuaded the high priests Annas and Jesus the son
of Gamala, and some others of the same seditious faction,
to cut me down. Now I was growing so great,
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and not to overlook me while I was aggrandizing myself
to the height of glory. And he said that it
would be for the advantage of the Galileans if I
were deprived of my government. There Annas also and his
friends desired them to make no delay about the matter.
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I should get the knowledge of what was doing too soon,
and should come and make an assault upon the city
with a great army. This was the Council of Simon.
But Artaenus, the high Priest, demonstrated to them that this
was not an easy thing to be done, because many
of the high priests and of the rulers of the
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people bore witness that I had acted like an excellent general,
and that it was the work of ill men to
accuse one against whom they had nothing to say. And
of Part four
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