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Hereupon the rest of the multitude that had been deluded retired;
but yet so that they went away angry, and two thousand of them made an
assault upon him in their armor; and as he was already gone to his own
house, they stood without and threatened him. On which occasion Josephus
again used a second stratagem to escape them; for he got upon the top of
his house, and with his right hand desired them to be silent, and said
to them, "I cannot tell what you would have, nor can hear what you
say, for the confused noise you make;" but he said that he would comply
with all their demands, in case they would but send some of their number
in to him that might talk with him about it. And when the principal of
them, with their leaders, heard this, they came into the house. He then
drew them to the most retired part of the house, and shut the door of that
hall where he put them, and then had them whipped till every one of their
inward parts appeared naked. In the mean time the multitude stood round
the house, and supposed that he had a long discourse with those that were
gone in about what they claimed of him. He had then the doors set open
immediately, and sent the men out all bloody, which so terribly aftrighted
those that had before threatened him, that they threw away their arms and
ran away.
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