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But as to those who had pursued after Cestius, when they were returned
back to Jerusalem, they overbore some of those that favored the Romans
by violence, and some them persuaded [by en-treaties] to join with them,
and got together in great numbers in the temple, and appointed a great
many generals for the war. Joseph also, the son of Gorion, 1
and Ananus the high priest, were chosen as governors of all affairs within
the city, and with a particular charge to repair the walls of the city;
for they did not ordain Eleazar the son of Simon to that office, although
he had gotten into his possession the prey they had taken from the Romans,
and the money they had taken from Cestius, together with a great part of
the public treasures, because they saw he was of a tyrannical temper, and
that his followers were, in their behavior, like guards about him. However,
the want they were in of Eleazar's money, and the subtle tricks used by
him, brought all so about, that the people were circumvented, and submitted
themselves to his authority in all public affairs.
1 From this name of Joseph the son of Gorion, or Gorion the son of Joseph, as B. IV. ch. 3. sect. 9, one of the governors of Jerusalem, who was slain at the beginning of the tumults by the zealots, B. IV. ch. 6. sect. 1, the much later Jewish author of a history of that nation takes his title, and yet personates our true Josephus, the son of Matthias; but the cheat is too gross to be put upon the learned world.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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