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The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian
The Works of Flavius Josephus the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian Author:Flavius Josephus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chap. m. Concerning the Enmity between Herod and Pheroras ; koto Herod sent Anti- pater to Casar . and of tHe Death of Pheroras. § 1. Whbx Herod had punish... more »ed those Pharisees who had been convicted of the foregoing crimes, he gathered an assembly together of bis friends, and accused Pheroras' wife; and ascribing the abuses of the virgins to the impudence of that woman, brought an accusation against her for the dishonour she had brought upon them . that " she had studiously introduced a quarrel between him and his brother, and by her ill temper, had brought them into a state of war, both by her words and actions; that the fines which he bad laid had not been paid, and the offenders had escaped punishment by her means; and that nothing which had of late been done had been done without her: for which reason Pheroras would do well, if he would, of his own accord, and by his own command, and not at my entreaty, or as following my opinion, put this his wife away, as one that will still be the occasion of war between thee and me. And now Pheroras, if thou vainest thy relation to me, put this wife of thine away ; for by this means thou wilt continue to be a brother to me, and wilt abide in thy love to me." Then said Pheroras, (although he were pressed hard by the former words,) that " as he would not do so unjust a thing as to renounce his brotherly relation to him, so would he not leave off his affection for his wife; that he would rather choose to die than to live and be deprived of a wife that was so dear unto him." Hereupon Herod put off his anger against Pheroras on these accounts, although he himself thereby underwent a very uneasy punishment. However, he forbade Antipater and his mother to have any conversation with Pheroras, and bade them to take care to avoid the assemblies ...« less