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he determined to do, mocking human life as worthy of laughter. That Herod is called a child-slayer not only on account of the children in Bethlehem who were slain in his madness against Christ, but also for killing his own three sons, and slaughtering their mother in addition to them, and his wife's brother and many others of his household and for killing a not insignificant multitude of Jews at his death. It should be known that Herod the Great had three sons, Herod also called Antipas, who beheaded the Forerunner, under whom the Lord was crucified during the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Herod also called Philip, to whom Herodias was first married, from whom he had a daughter Salome, who also danced, and Herod also called Agrippa, who killed James the son of Zebedee. That Herod the Great died having lived seventy years, of which he reigned unlawfully over Judea for 37 years. for in his time the prophecy of the patriarch Jacob was fulfilled which says "a ruler shall not fail 1.322 from Judah, nor a leader from his thighs, until he comes for whom it is reserved," that is, the Christ. For Herod was the first foreigner to rule the Jews, being an Idumean Arab, and he was the first to appoint a foreign high priest, Ananilus, as Josephus says. That Herod the blood-stained, in addition to the many murders of his relatives, also kills Hyrcanus the former high priest and his son and his sister, who was his own wife, his two own sons who were coming into manhood, and his mother-in-law, and furthermore the husband of his own sister Salome; and when she married another, he adds this one also, and in addition the teachers of the sacred laws, and the zealots for the ancestral traditions. Seized by a divinely-sent plague and dropsy he spewed forth worms from his body, and thus died, suffering terribly. That Christ comes up from Egypt at five years of age. That Augustus appointed Archelaus, son of Herod, ethnarch of the Jews, but his other brothers, being four, Herod named after his father and Antipater after his grandfather and Lysanias and Philip, he divided the land into four parts and distributed it to each and named them tetrarchs. At that time there was also a famine in Rome, such that a modius was sold for 27 gold pieces. That in the #225519th year of the world, and in the 13th year of the divine incarnation, a third Herod ruled over the Jews, who was also called 1.323 Agrippa, being a foreigner, son of Herod, brother of Archelaus, for 24 years; for Archelaus, after 9 years of his rule, was exiled by the Romans to Vienna, a city of Gaul. This Herod, also called Agrippa, killed John the Baptist in the 13th year of his reign, and in the 32nd of the Lord's incarnation; under whom also our Lord Jesus Christ willingly for our sake underwent the saving passion. By him Paneas was renamed Caesarea Philippi because it was rebuilt by the tetrarch Philip. This man built the city of Tiberias for Tiberius Caesar, and having rebuilt the city of the Gabinians, formerly Samaria, he named it Sebaste, and its seaport, Strato's Tower, having made it a city, he called Caesarea after the same Caesar; and later he also builds Antipatris. And he constructed a temple of Pan at Paneas for Pan, in what is now called Caesarea of Palestine; and he rebuilt the temple of Jerusalem to twice its size. This man, having been exiled in Lugdunum of Gaul, dies in extreme poverty with the adulteress Herodias. But the girl who danced at the beheading of the Forerunner, the earth swallowed alive; but others say that while playing on the ice over a lake, it broke and she went down, and her head having been wedged off, her whole body went down to the bottom, but her head was left upon the ice. That in the time of Herod the prophecy of Daniel was fulfilled. For until Herod the high priests of the Jews were anointed leaders, 1.324 beginning from the renewal of the temple in the time of Darius, and ending with Hyrcanus the high priest, who was so named for having subdued the Hyrcanians. 483 years are between these, as many as also the

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