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When Petronius saw by their words that their determination was hard
to be removed, and that, without a war, he should not be able to be subservient
to Caius in the dedication of his statue, and that there must be a great
deal of bloodshed, he took his friends, and the servants that were about
him, and hasted to Tiberias, as wanting to know in what posture the affairs
of the Jews were; and many ten thousands of the Jews met Petronius again,
when he was come to Tiberias. These thought they must run a mighty hazard
if they should have a war with the Romans, but judged that the transgression
of the law was of much greater consequence, and made supplication to him,
that he would by no means reduce them to such distresses, nor defile their
city with the dedication of the statue. Then Petronius said to them, "Will
you then make war with Caesar, without considering his great preparations
for war, and your own weakness?" They replied, "We will not by
any means make war with him, but still we will die before we see our laws
transgressed." So they threw themselves down upon their faces, and
stretched out their throats, and said they were ready to be slain; and
this they did for forty days together, and in the mean time left off the
tilling of their ground, and that while the season of the year required
them to sow it.
Thus they continued firm in their resolution, and proposed to themselves
to die willingly, rather than to see the dedication of the statue.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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