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[34]
Now Antiochus was not satisfied either with his unexpected taking
the city, or with its pillage, or with the great slaughter he had made
there; but being overcome with his violent passions, and remembering what
he had suffered during the siege, he compelled the Jews to dissolve the
laws of their country, and to keep their infants uncircumcised, and to
sacrifice swine's flesh upon the altar; against which they all opposed
themselves, and the most approved among them were put to death. Bacchides
also, who was sent to keep the fortresses, having these wicked commands,
joined to his own natural barbarity, indulged all sorts of the extremest
wickedness, and tormented the worthiest of the inhabitants, man by man,
and threatened their city every day with open destruction, till at length
he provoked the poor sufferers by the extremity of his wicked doings to
avenge themselves.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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