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And now the people could no longer bear the insolence of this procedure,
but did all together run zealously, in order to overthrow that tyranny;
and indeed they were Gorion the son of Josephus, and Symeon the son of
Gamaliel, 1
who encouraged them, by going up and down when they were assembled together
in crowds, and as they saw them alone, to bear no longer, but to inflict
punishment upon these pests and plagues of their freedom, and to purge
the temple of these bloody polluters of it. The best esteemed also of the
high priests, Jesus the son of Gamalas, and Ananus the son of Ananus when
they were at their assemblies, bitterly reproached the people for their
sloth, and excited them against the zealots; for that was the name they
went by, as if they were zealous in good undertakings, and were not rather
zealous in the worst actions, and extravagant in them beyond the example
of others.
1 This Symeon, the son of Gamaliel, is mentioned as the president of the Jewish sanhedrim, and one that perished in the destruction of Jerusalem, by the Jewish Rabbins, as Reland observes on this place. He also tells us that those Rabbins mention one Jesus the son of Gamala, as once a high priest, but this long before the destruction of Jerusalem; so that if he were the same person with this Jesus the son of Gamala, Josephus, he must have lived to be very old, or they have been very bad chronologers.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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