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Now before this their first mourning was over, another mischief befell
them also; for some of those that raised the foregoing tumult, when they
were traveling along the public road, about a hundred furlongs from the
city, robbed Stephanus, a servant of Caesar, as he was journeying, and
plundered him of all that he had with him; which things when Cureanus heard
of, he sent soldiers immediately, and ordered them to plunder the neighboring
villages, and to bring the most eminent persons among them in bonds to
him. Now as this devastation was making, one of the soldiers seized the
laws of Moses that lay in one of those villages, and brought them out before
the eyes of all present, and tore them to pieces; and this was done with
reproachful language, and much scurrility; which things when the Jews heard
of, they ran together, and that in great numbers, and came down to Cesarea,
where Cumanus then was, and besought him that he would avenge, not themselves,
but God himself, whose laws had been affronted; for that they could not
bear to live any longer, if the laws of their forefathers must be affronted
after this manner. Accordingly Cumanus, out of fear lest the multitude
should go into a sedition, and by the advice of his friends also, took
care that the soldier who had offered the affront to the laws should be
beheaded, and thereby put a stop to the sedition which was ready to be
kindled a second time.
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1 HOW THERE HAPPENED A QUARREL BETWEEN THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS; AND HOW CLAUDIUS PUT AN END TO THEIR DIFFERENCES.
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