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THE

GENUINE WORKS

OF

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,

THE

Jewish Historian :

CONTAINING

TWENTY BOOKS OF THE JEWISH ANTIQUITIES,
SEVEN BOOKS OF THE JEWISH WAR,

AND THE

LIFE OF JOSEPHUS,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, ACCORDING TO HAVERCAMP'S ACCURATE EDITION.

TOGETHER WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS;

PARALLEL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE; THE TRUE CHRONOLOGY OF THE SEVERAL HISTORIES; AN ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH COINS,
WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES; AND A COMPLETE INDEX.

BY THE LATE

WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A.

PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, &c. &c.

A NEW EDITION.

REVISED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES, BY THE

REV. SAMUEL BURDER, A.M.

Of Clare Hall, Cambridge; Lecturer of the United Parishes of Christ Church, Newgate Street, and St. Leonard, Foster Lane, London;
Author of Oriental Customs, &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

London:

J. ROBINS AND CO. ALBION PRESS, IVY-LANE, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1822.

הספרים הלאומי

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THE

ANTIQUITIES

OF

THE JEWS.

BOOK XVII.

Containing an Interval of Fourteen Years.

FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER AND ARISTOBULUS, TO THE BANISHMENT OF

CHAP. I.

ARCHELAUS.

ANTIPATER IS HATED BY ALL THE JEWISH NATION FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS BRETHREN; BUT INGRATIATES HIM

SELF WITH THE ROMANS, BY HIS LIBERAL PRESENTS. ALSO CONCERNING HEROD'S WIVES AND CHILDREN.

his father; being, indeed no other than a king already. And he was for that very reason trusted, and the more firmly depended on, for the which he ought to have been put to death: as appearing to have betrayed his brethren out of his concern for the preservation of He

WHEN Antipater had thus taken off his rod; and not rather out of his ill will to them,

brethren, and had brought his father into the highest degree of impiety, till he was haunted with furies for what he had done, his hopes did not succeed to his mind, as to the rest of his life. For, although he was delivered from the fear of his brethren being his rivals as to the government; yet did he find it a very hard thing, and almost impracticable, to come at the kingdom, because the hatred of the nation against him on that account was become so very great. And, besides this very disagreeable circumstance, the affair of the soldiery grieved him still more: who were alienated from him: from which yet these kings derived all the safety which they had, whenever they found the nation desirous of innovation. And all this, danger was drawn upon him by his destruction of his brethren. However, he governed the nation jointly with

and, before them, to his father himself. Now all Antipater's contrivances tended to make his way to take off Herod, that he might have nobody to accuse him in the vile practices he was devising; and that Herod might have no refuge, nor any to afford him assistance: since they must thereby have Antipater for their open enemy. Insomuch that the very plots he laid against his brethren were occasioned by the hatred he bore his father. But at this time he was more than ever set upon the execution of his attempts against Herod because, if he were once dead, the government would now be firmly secured to him. But, if he were suffered to live any longer, he should be in danger upon a discovery of that wickedness of which he had been the contriver; and his father would of necessity become his enemy. And on this account it was that he became

estate, that there might be no dispute between them about it.

Now Herod brought up his sons' children with great care for Alexander had two sons by Glaphyra; and Aristobulus had three sons and two daughters by Bernice, Salome's daughter. And as his friends were once with him, he presented the children before them: and, deploring the hard fortune of his own sons, he prayed that no such ill fortune might befall these who were their children: but that they might improve in virtue, and obtain what they justly deserved, and might make him amends for his care of their education, He also caused them to be betrothed against they should come to the proper age of mar

very bountiful to his father's friends, and bestowed great sums on several of them, in order to surprise men with his good deeds, and take off their hatred against him.* And he sent great presents to his friends at Rome particularly, to gain their good will: and above all the rest to Saturninus, the president of Syria. He also hoped to gain the favor of Saturninus's brother, with the large presents he bestowed on him: as also he used the same art to Salome, the king's sister; who had married one of Herod's chief friends. And, when he counterfeited friendship to those with whom he conversed, he was very subtle in gaining their belief; and very cunning to hide his hatred against any that he really did hate. But he could not impose upon his aunt,riage: the elder of Alexander's sons to Phewho understood him of a long time, and was a woman not easily to be deluded: especially while she had already used all possible caution in preventing his pernicious designs. Although Antipater's uncle, by the mother's side, was married to her daughter; and this by his own connivance and management; while she had before been married to Aristobulus, and while Salome's other daughter by that husband was married to the son of Calleas yet that marriage was no obstacle to her, who knew how wicked he was, in her discovering his designs: as her former kindred to him could not prevent her hatred of him. Now Herod had compelled Salome, while she was in love with Sylleus the Arabian, to marry Alexas: which match was by her submitted to, at the instance of Julia: who persuaded Salome not to refuse it, lest she should herself be their open enemy: since Herod had sworn, that he would never be friends with Salome, if she would not accept of Alexas for her husband. So she submitted to Julia, as being Caesar's wife: and besides that, as she advised her to nothing but what was very much for her own advantage. At this time also it was that Herod sent back king Archelaus's daughter, who had been Alexander's wife, to her father: returning the portion he had with her, out of his own

* Liberality may flow, it clearly appears from this instance, from various motives. It discovers a refinement in hypocrisy to endeavor, by such bribes as these,

roras's daughter; and Antipater's daughter to Aristobulus's eldest son. He also allotted one of Aristobulus's daughters to Antipater's son; and Aristobulus's other daughter to Herod, a son of his own; who was born to him. by the high-priest's daughter. For it is the. ancient practice among us to have many wives at the same time. Now the king made these espousals for the children out of commiseration of them now they were fatherless: as endeavoring to render Antipater kind to them by these intermarriages. But Antipater did not fail to bear the same temper of mind to his brothers' children, which he had borne to his brothers themselves. And his father's concern about them provoked his indignation against them: upon this supposal, that they would become greater than ever his brothers had been while Archelaus, a king, would support his daughter's sons: and Pheroras, a tetrarch, would accept of one of the daughters, as a wife to his son. What provoked him also was this: that all the multitude would so commiserate these fatherless children, and so hate him for making them fatherless; that all would come out : since they were no strangers to his vile disposition towards his brethren. He contrived, therefore, to overturn his father's settlements; as thinking it a terrible thing that they should be so related to him, and be

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to varnish a bad character, or to retrieve lost reputation. The preservation of it by continued integrity would be much easier, as well as more honorable. B.

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