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While I was thus speaking, the united voices of all the people joined
together, and called me their benefactor and savior, and attested to my
former behavior, and exhorted me to continue so to do hereafter; and they
all said, upon their oaths, that their wives had been preserved free from
injuries, and that no one had ever been aggrieved by me. After this, I
read to the Galileans two of those epistles which had been sent by Jonathan
and his colleagues, and which those whom I had appointed to guard the road
had taken, and sent to me. These were full of reproaches, and of lies,
as if I had acted more like a tyrant than a governor against them, with
many other things besides therein contained, which were no better indeed
than impudent falsities. I also informed the multitude how I came by these
letters, and that those who carried them delivered them up voluntarily;
for I was not willing that my enemies should know any thing of the guards
I had set, lest they should be afraid, and leave off writing hereafter.
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