![]() Not many months afterwards, the Romans marched through Sepphoris in order to bring succour to Sabinus, who was hard beset by the men of Jerusalem in the fortress called Antonia and we fought against them, and my father was taken captive and crucified by Varus. In my fourth year my father’s brother, the Rabbi Matthias, was burned alive by Herod for causing his scholars to cast down the golden image of an eagle which the king had set up over the gate of the temple of the Lord. Satan put it into the heart of the rulers of the land to move the people to the worship of false gods, and the Lord God had not yet raised up a Redeemer for Israel. In those days Israel was grievously afflicted, and tribulation befell the righteous. ![]() ![]() My former name was Joseph the son of Simeon, and I was born in Sepphoris, the metropolis of Galilee, in the twentieth year of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, about four years before the death of King Herod. Published by Good Press, 4064066095963 Table of Contents ![]() Edwin Abbott Abbott Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord ![]()
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