Section 87
The text on this page is estimated to be only 28.53% accurate
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 55 illustrious in every respect, being the brother of Alexander, the Alabarch,* and not unskilled in philosophy, was well prepared to enter upon a defence against these charges. But he was pre cluded from this by Caius, who ordered him straightway to be gone, and as he was very much incensed, it was very evident thai he was meditating some great evil against them. Philo departed, covered with insult, and told the Jews that were with him, they had good reason to console themselves, that although Caius was enraged at them, he was already in fact challenging God against himself." Thus far Josephus. And Philo himself, in the embassy which he describes, derails the particulars of what was then done to him, with great accuracy. Passing by the greatest part of these, I shall only state those by which it will be made manifest to the reader, that these things happened to the Jews forthwith, and at no distant period, on account of those things which they dared to perpetrate against Christ. First, then, he relates, that in the reign of Tiberius, at Rome, Sejanus, who was then in great favour with Tiberius, had made every effort to destroy the whole nation of the Jews from the foundation, and that in Judea Pontius Pilate, under whom the crimes were committed against our Saviour, having attempted something contrary to what was lawful among the Jews respecting the temple at Jerusalem, which was then yet standing, excited them to the greatest tumults. CHAPTER VL What evils overwhelmed the Jews, after their presumption against Christ AFTER the death of Tiberius, Caius having received the go vernment, besides rtteny other innumerable acts of tyranny against many, did not a little afflict the whole nation of the Jews particu larly. We may soon learn this, from the declaration of the same * JUabarch.] The Alabarch was the chief magistrate among the Jews at Alexandria.