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But when I was come near Sogane, I caused the multitude to make
a halt, and exhorted them not to be so easily provoked to anger, and to
the inflicting such punishments as could not be afterwards recalled: I
also gave order, that a hundred men, who were already in years, and were
principal men among them, should get themselves ready to go to the city
of Jerusalem, and should .make a complaint before the people of such as
raised seditions in the country. And I said to them, that" in case
they be moved with what you say, you shall desire the community to write
to me, and to enjoin me to continue in Galilee, and to order Jonathan and
his colleagues to depart out of it." When I had suggested these instructions
to them, and while they were getting themselves ready as fast as they could,
I sent them on this errand the third day after they had been assembled:
I also sent five hundred armed men with them [as a guard]. I then wrote
to my friends in Samaria, to take care that they might safely pass through
the country: for Samaria was already under the Romans, and it was absolutely
necessary for those that go quickly [to Jerusalem] to pass through that
country; for in that road you may, in three days' time, go from Galilee
to Jerusalem. I also went myself, and conducted the old men as far as the
bounds of Galilee, and set guards in the roads, that it might not be easily
known by any one that these men were gone. And when I had thus done, I
went and abode at Japha.
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