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Chapter
XIII.
Josephus,2398
the son of Matthias, priest of
Jerusalem, taken prisoner by Vespasian and his son Titus, was banished.
Coming to Rome he presented to the emperors, father and son, seven
books On the captivity of the Jews, which were deposited in the
public library and, on account of his genius, was found worthy of a
statue at Rome. He wrote also twenty books of Antiquities, from
the beginning of the world until the fourteenth year of Domitian
Cæsar, and two of Antiquities against Appion, the
grammarian of Alexandria who, under Caligula, sent as legate on the
part of the Gentiles against Philo, wrote also a book containing a
vituperation of the Jewish nation. Another book of his entitled, On
all ruling wisdom, in which the martyr deaths of the Maccabeans are
related is highly esteemed. In the eighth book of his
Antiquities he most openly acknowledges that Christ was slain by
the Pharisees on account of the greatness of his miracles, that John
the Baptist was truly a prophet, and that Jerusalem was destroyed
because of the murder of James the apostle. He wrote also concerning
the Lord after this fashion: “In this same time was Jesus, a wise
man, if indeed it be lawful to call him man. For he was a worker of
wonderful miracles, and a teacher of those who freely receive the
truth. He had very many adherents also, both of the Jews and of the
Gentiles, and was believed to be Christ, and when through the envy of
our chief men Pilate had crucified him, nevertheless those who had
loved him at first continued to the end, for he appeared to them the
third day alive. Many things, both these and other wonderful things are
in the songs of the prophets who prophesied concerning him and the sect
of Christians, so named from Him, exists to the present
day.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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