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Now when these were quieted, it happened, as it does in a diseased
body, that another part was subject to an inflammation; for a company of
deceivers and robbers got together, and persuaded the Jews to revolt, and
exhorted them to assert their liberty, inflicting death on those that continued
in obedience to the Roman government, and saying, that such as willingly
chose slavery ought to be forced from such their desired inclinations;
for they parted themselves into different bodies, and lay in wait up and
down the country, and plundered the houses of the great men, and slew the
men themselves, and set the villages on fire; and this till all Judea was
filled with the effects of their madness. And thus the flame was every
day more and more blown up, till it came to a direct war.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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