Section 89
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 57 tumult, he planted his armed soldiers against the multitude, and previously intermixed them, concealed under the same com mon dress with the people. He had also forbidden them to use their swords, but ordered them to strike the noisy with clubs. The signal he gave from the tribunal. The Jews being thus beaten, many of them perished in consequence of the blows, many also being trodden to death by their own countrymen in the flight. The multitude thus overawed by the misfortune of those slain, held their peace." The same writer mentions innumerable other commotions that were raised beside these, in Jerusalem itself; showing that from that time tumults, and wars, and plots of mis chief, one after another, never ceased in the city and all Judea, until, last of all, the siege of Vespasian overwhelmed them. Thus, then, the di^jne justice overtook the Jews in this way, for their crimes against Christ. CHAPTER VII. Haw Pilate destroyed himself. IT is proper also, to observe, how it is asserted that this same Pilate, who was governor at our Saviour's crucifixion, in the reign of Caius, whose times we are recording, fell into such calamities that he was forced to become his own murderer, and the avenger of his own wickedness. Divine justice, it seems, did not long pro tract his punishment. This is stated by those Greek historians, who have recorded the Olympiads in order, together with the transactions of the times. CHAPTER VIII. The famine that happened in the reign of Claudius. CAIUS, however, had not reigned four years, when he was suc ceeded by Claudius, in the sovereignty of the empire. In his reign H