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An Ecclesiastical History to the Year 324 of the Christian Era, and the Twentieth of the Reign of Constantine
An Ecclesiastical History to the Year 324 of the Christian Era and the Twentieth of the Reign of Constantine Author:Eusebius Subtitle: With a Description of the Martyrdom of Those Who Suffered for the Cause of Christ General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: S. Bagster Subjects: Church history Religion / Christianity / History Religion / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church... more » / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chap. XI. -- The testimonies respecting John the Baptist and Christ. [reign Of Claudius.] As it was not long before this that John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod the younger, the holy Scriptures record the fact, which is also confirmed by Josephus, who has expressly made mention of Herodias by name, and the circumstance of her being married to Herod, though she was the wife of his brother; Herod having first divorced his former lawful wife. She was a daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia Petrsea. But having forced Herodias from her husband yet living, and on whose account also he slew John, he was involved in a war with Aretas for the disgrace inflicted on his daughter; in which war he relates that, when coming to battle, the army of Herod was completely destroyed; and that he suffered all this, on account of the crime that he committed against John. But the same Josephus, in this account, in which he confesses that John was a most righteous man, also bears testimony to what is recorded of him in the narratives of the gospels. He relates, also, that Herod lost his kingdom on account of the same Herodias, and that he was driven into exile with her, and condemned to dwell at Vienna, a city of Gaul. These facts are stated by him in the eighteenth book of his Antiquities, where in the same paragraphs, he also writes thus concerning...« less