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Now he was the ruler of the Jews in all eight years; but at a feast
came to his end. It was caused by the treachery of his son-in-law Ptolemy,
who caught also his wife, and two of his sons, and kept them in bonds.
He also sent some to kill John the third son, whose name was Hyrcanus;
but the young man perceiving them coming, he avoided the danger he was
in from them, 1
and made haste into the city [Jerusalem], as relying on the good-will of
the multitude, because of the benefits they had received from his father,
and because of the hatred the same multitude bare to Ptolemy; so that when
Ptolemy was endeavoring to enter the city by another gate, they drove him
away, as having already admitted Hyrcanus.
1 Here Josephus begins to follow and to abridge the next sacred Hebrew book, styled in the end of the First Book of Maccabees, "The Chronicle of John [Hyrcanus's] high priesthood;" but in some of the Greek copies," The Fourth Book of Maccabees." A Greek version of this chronicle was extant not very long ago in the days of Sautes Pagninus, and Sixtus Senensis, at Lyons, though it seems to have been there burnt, and to be utterly lost. See Sixtus Senensis's account of it, of its many Hebraisms, and its great agreement with Josephus's abridgement, in the Authent. Rec. Part I. p. 206, 207, 208.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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