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And truly any one would be surprised at Judas upon this occasion.
He was of the sect of the Essens, and had never failed or deceived men
in his predictions before. Now this man saw Antigonus as he was passing
along by the temple, and cried out to his acquaintance, (they were not
a few who attended upon him as his scholars,) "O strange!" said
he, "it is good for me to die now, since truth is dead before me,
and somewhat that I have foretold hath proved false; for this Antigonus
is this day alive, who ought to hare died this day; and the place where
he ought to be slain, according to that fatal decree, was Strato's Tower,
which is at the distance of six hundred furlongs from this place; and yet
four hours of this day are over already; which point of time renders the
prediction impossible to be fill filled." And when the old man had
said this, he was dejected in his mind, and so continued. But in a little
time news came that Antigonus was slain in a subterraneous place, which
was itself also called Strato's Tower, by the same name with that Cesarea
which lay by the sea-side; and this ambiguity it was which caused the prophet's
disorder.
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