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So when Gessius had been beaten, as we have said already, the principal
men of Jerusalem, seeing that the robbers and innovators had arms in great
plenty, and fearing lest they, while they were unprovided of arms, should
be in subjection to their enemies, which also came to be the case afterward;
and, being informed that all Galilee had not yet revolted from the Romans,
but that some part of it was still quiet; they sent me and two others of
the priests, who were men of excellent characters, Joazar and Judas, in
order to persuade the ill men there to lay down their arms, and to teach
them this lesson, - That it were better to have those arms reserved for
the most courageous men that the nation had [than to be kept there]; for
that it had been resolved, That those our best men should always have their
arms ready against futurity; but still so, that they should wait to see
what the Romans would do.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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