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[109]
And as the feast of unleavened bread was at hand, in the first month,
which, according to the Macedonians, is called Xanthicus, but according
to us Nisan, all the people ran together out of the villages to the city,
and celebrated the festival, having purified themselves, with their wives
and children, according to the law of their country; and they offered the
sacrifice which was called the Passover, on the fourteenth day of the same
month, and feasted seven days, and spared for no cost, but offered whole
burnt-offerings to God, and performed sacrifices of thanksgiving, because
God had led them again to the land of their fathers, and to the laws thereto
belonging, and had rendered the mind of the king of Persia favorable to
them. So these men offered the largest sacrifices on these accounts, and
used great magnificence in the worship of God, and dwelt in Jerusalem,
and made use of a form of government that was aristocratical, but mixed
with an oligarchy, for the high priests were at the head of their affairs,
until the posterity of the Asamoneans set up kingly government; for before
their captivity, and the dissolution of their polity, they at first had
kingly government from Saul and David for five hundred and thirty-two years,
six months, and ten days; but before those kings, such rulers governed
them as were called judges and monarchs. Under this form of government
they continued for more than five hundred years after the death of Moses,
and of Joshua their commander. And this is the account I had to give of
the Jews who had been carried into captivity, but were delivered from it
in the times of Cyrus and Darius.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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