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There was a man who was a Jew, but had been driven away from his
own country by an accusation laid against him for transgressing their laws,
and by the fear he was under of punishment for the same; but in all respects
a wicked man. He, then living at Rome, professed to instruct men in the
wisdom of the laws of Moses. He procured also three other men, entirely
of the same character with himself, to be his partners. These men persuaded
Fulvia, a woman of great dignity, and one that had embraced the Jewish
religion, to send purple and gold to the temple at Jerusalem; and when
they had gotten them, they employed them for their own uses, and spent
the money themselves, on which account it was that they at first required
it of her. Whereupon Tiberius, who had been informed of the thing by Saturninus,
the husband of Fulvia, who desired inquiry might be made about it, ordered
all the Jews to be banished out of Rome; at which time the consuls listed
four thousand men out of them, and sent them to the island Sardinia; but
punished a greater number of them, who were unwilling to become soldiers,
on account of keeping the laws of their forefathers.
Thus were these Jews banished out of the city by the wickedness of four
men.
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1 HOW THE SAMARITANS MADE A TUMULT AND PILATE DESTROYED MANY OF THEM; HOW PILATE WAS ACCUSED AND WHAT THINGS WERE DONE BY VITELLIUS RELATING TO THE JEWS AND THE PARTHIANS.
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