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So they secretly went out of the temple to the wall of the city,
and made use of their saws, and opened that gate which was over against
the Idumeans. Now at first there came a fear upon the Idumeans themselves,
which disturbed them, as imagining that Ananus and his party were coming
to attack them, so that every one of them had his right hand upon his sword,
in order to defend himself; but they soon came to know who they were that
came to them, and were entered the city. And had the Idumeans then fallen
upon the city, nothing could have hindered them from destroying the people
every man of them, such was the rage they were in at that time; but as
they first of all made haste to get the zealots out of custody, which those
that brought them in earnestly desired them to do, and not to overlook
those for whose sakes they were come, in the midst of their distresses,
nor to bring them into a still greater danger; for that when they had once
seized upon the guards, it would be easy for them to fall upon the city;
but that if the city were once alarmed, they would not then be able to
overcome those guards, because as soon as they should perceive they were
there, they would put themselves in order to fight them, and would hinder
their coming into the temple.
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1 THE CRUELTY OF THE IDUMEANS WHEN THEY WERE GOTTEN INTO THE TEMPLE DURING THE STORM; AND OF THE ZEALOTS. CONCERNING THE SLAUGHTER OF ANANUS, AND JESUS, AND ZACHARIAS; AND HOW THE IDUMEANS RETIRED HOME.
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