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Ptolemy, the son of Menneus, brought back into Judea Antigonus, the son
of Aristobulus, who had already raised an army, and had, by money, made
Fabius to be his friend, add this because he was of kin to him. Marion
also gave him assistance. He had been left by Cassius to tyrannize over
Tyre; for this Cussiris was a man that seized on Syria, and then kept it
under, in the way of a tyrant. Marion also marched into Galilee, which
lay in his neighborhood, and took three of his fortresses, and put garrisons
into them to keep them. But when Herod came, he took all from him; but
the Tyrian garrison he dismissed in a very civil manner; nay, to some of
the soldiers he made presents out of the good-will he bare to that city.
When he had despatched these affairs, and was gone to meet Antigonus, he
joined battle with him, and beat him, and drove him out of Judea presently,
when he was just come into its borders. But when he was come to Jerusalem,
Hyrcanus and the people put garlands about his head; for he had already
contracted an affinity with the family of Hyrcanus by having espoused a
descendant of his, and for that reason Herod took the greater care of him,
as being to marry the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, add
the granddaughter of Hyrcanus, by which wife he became the father of three
male and two female children. He had also married before this another wife,
out of a lower family of his own nation, whose name was Doris, by whom
he had his eldest son Antipater.
1 In this and the following chapters the reader will easily remark, how truly Gronovius observes, in his notes on the Roman decrees in favor of the Jews, that their rights and privileges were commonly purchased of the Romans with money. Many examples of this sort, both as to the Romans and others in authority, will occur in our Josephus, both now and hereafter, and need not be taken particular notice of on the several occasions in these notes. Accordingly, the chief captain confesses to St. Paul that "with a great sum he had obtained his freedom," Acts 22:28; as had St. Paul's ancestors, very probably, purchased the like freedom for their family by money, as the same author justly concludes also.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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