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So Florus was troubled that the disturbances were over, and endeavored
to kindle that flame again, and sent for the high priests, with the other
eminent persons, and said the only demonstration that the people would
not make any other innovations should be this, that they must go out and
meet the soldiers that were ascending from Cesarea, whence two cohorts
were coming; and while these men were exhorting the multitude so to do,
he sent beforehand, and gave directions to the centurions of the cohorts,
that they should give notice to those that were under them not to return
the Jews' salutations; and that if they made any reply to his disadvantage,
they should make use of their weapons. Now the high priests assembled the
multitude in the temple, and desired them to go and meet the Romans, and
to salute the cohorts very civilly, before their miserable case should
become incurable. Now the seditious part would not comply with these persuasions;
but the consideration of those that had been destroyed made them incline
to those that were the boldest for action.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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