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A46286	The works of Josephus with great diligence revised and amended according to the excellent French translation of Monsieur Arnauld D'Andilly : also the Embassy of Philo Judæus to the Emperor Caius Caligula; Works. English. 1676	Josephus, Flavius.; Philo, of Alexandria. De legatione ad Gaium. English.; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.; Arnauld d'Andilly, Monsieur (Robert), 1588-1674.	1676 (1676)	Wing J1078; ESTC R11907	1,698,071	934

Priests Garment signifieth the Sun and Moon The number of the Gems allude to L the number of the Months or the twelve Houses or the equal number of parts of that Circle which the Grecians call the Zodiack The Thiara or Mitre likewise hath an allusion to Heaven by reason of its Azure or Hyacinthine colour for otherwise the Name of God might not be placed therein and the Triple Crown of Gold by its brightness represents his glory and Soveraign Majesty Let this suffice for the present for that which we will discourse hereafter will furnish us with sufficient and ample matter to shew and set out the Wisdom of our Law-giver CHAP. IX Of Aaron's Priesthood Exod. 28 29. and the Laws which appertain to the Feasts and Sacrifices M AFter these things were thus order'd and it remained onely to consecrate the Tabernacle Hedio Ruffinus cap. 12. God appeared to Moses commanding him to establish Aaron his Brother Exod. 28. v. 1 2 3 High Priest who in respect of his vertue deserved that Title of Honour above all the rest 29. 1. ad 28. For which cause Moses assembling the congregation discoursed unto them his vertues God elected Aaron Moses Brother for High Priest and discovered his good affection and reckoned up unto them how many dangers he had suffered in their behalf Every one approved this choice declaring the forward zeal and love they alwayes bare unto him Whereupon he spake unto them after this manner The work is now brought unto such an end as it hath pleased God and hath been possible for us and for that you know we are to receive him into N this Tabernacle we ought above all things to have a special care in the election of such an one who is to make sacrifice and supplication for us Touching my self if the matter depended on my private choice I should esteem no Man more worthy than my self to execute this Function both for that naturally Men love themselves and for that I am well assured how many travels I have supported for your sake But God himself hath judged Aaron worthy of this honour and hath chosen him for his High Priest in that he excelleth all other in equity and justice commanding that he should be invested with the Sacred Robes and take charge of the Altars and Sacrifices He shall make Prayers for you unto God who will hear them willingly by reason that he hath care of your Race and will receive them proceeding from a person whom he himself O hath elected These words of his were grateful unto the People and they all approved the election which God had made For Aaron was more capable of that honour than any A other both by reason of his race and in regard of the gift of prophecy which he had receiv'd and also for the eminent vertue of his Brother He had at that time four Sons Nadab Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar But whatsoever remained of those things which were gathered for the building of the Tabernacle was imployed to make Veyles to cover the Tabernacle Candelstick Altar and the other Instruments to the end that in their travel they might not be soyled either by rain or dust Aarons Sons And having once more assembled the People together Exod. 36. 8. he commanded them to offer every one of them half a Sicle the Sicle is a kind of Hebrew Coyne that is as much in value as four Athenian Drams whereunto they obeyed willingly Sicle The number of them that offered was six hundred five thousand five hundred and fifty And they that brought this Money B were such as were of a free condition The number of the Israelites betwixt twenty and fifty years of age and betwixt the years of twenty and fifty and that which was received was imployed in the necessaries of the Temple Then did he purifie the Tabernacle and the Priests in this manner He took the weight of five hundred Sycles of chosen Myrrh and the like quantity of Ireos of Cinamon and of Calamus which is a most Odoriferous Drug the half of the said weight and he caused all these to to be beaten and infused into a Hin of Oyl of Olive this Hin is one of our Measures containing two Choas of Athens all which he mixed and boyled together according to the Art of Perfumers and he made thereof a most Odoriferous Oyntment which he took and anointed the Priest therewith and all that which belonged to the Tabernacle The Holy Oyntment to the intent to purifie them offering many and sundry sorts C of Perfumes of great price upon the Altar of Gold whereof I forbear to speak any further for fear I should grow tedious to the Readers Twice a day before Sun-rise and Sun-set The Sacrifices they were to burn Incense and supply the Lamps of this purifi'd Oyl whereof three were to burn every day upon the sacred Candlestick in honour of God and the rest were lighted in the evening Amongst them that wrought and finished these things Beseleel and Eliah were the most excellent and expert workmen for whatsoever had been enterprized by others v. 2. they in their Art polished and perfected And they found out many new things Beseleel of their own invention yet was Beseleel judged the most excellent of the two All the time imployed in this work was seven months and at that time was the year D accomplished which began at their departure out of Egypt In the beginning of the second year in the moneth which the Macedonians call Xantichus and the Hebrews Nisan upon the new Moon they dedicated the Tabernacle with all things belonging thereunto Exo. 40. 1 2 3. according as I have made mention And God presently testified that both their Gifts and Works were acceptable in his sight The Tabernacle was dedicated on the first day of April the second year after their departure out of Egypt the year after the Creation of the World 2455. before Christs birth 1509. by his presence honouring the Tabernacle after this manner The Sky being elsewhere clear and fair over the Tabernacle alone there was a Cloud not wholly thick like a Winter strom nor yet so thin that a Man could see thorow the same from whenc there descended a Dew that gave testimony of Gods presence unto them that had Faith Moses having recompenced all the Work-masters with such rewards as appertained unto them by desert offer'd sacrifice E according as God had commanded him in the Door or Porch of the Tabernacle a Bull and a Ram and a Kid for their sins but with what ceremony these things are done I will declare when I treat of Sacrifices as also what Offerings are to be burnt by fire and according to the Law are allowed to be fed upon and with the blood of the slaughtered Beasts he sprinkled the Vestment of Aaron and purified both him and his Children

Son that he would suffer her to perform her Vows who willingly condescended to her desire and furnished her royally with all things that were necessary for such a Voyage giving her a great Sum of Money with her and bringing her on her way many days journey so that at length she arrived in Jerusalem to the great advantage of the Inhabitants of that City For at that time the City was oppressed with a grievous famine so that many died for want of food for which cause Queen Helena sent her servants some into Alexandria to buy a great quantity of Corn the rest into Cyprus to buy dried Figs who returned with all expedition they might whereupon Helena distributed the Victuals amongst the L poor leaving a singular memory of her Liberality to the whole Nation Her Son Izates also understanding of this Famine sent a great sum of Money to the Governour of Jerusalem But hereafter I will declare what other benefits the King and Queen have bestowed upon our Nation Now Artabanus King of Parthia perceiving that the Princes of the Kingdom had conspired against him Artabanus retireth himself to Izates and requireth his assistance resolved with himself to go unto Izates for the security of his person hoping by that means if it were possible to recover his Kingdom He therefore retired thither and brought with him about one thousand men of his Kinsfolk and domestick servants And by the way he met with Izates whom he knew very well by his Royal Train notwithstanding he was unknown unto him by countenance M Drawing therefore near unto him he first of all humbled himself on his knees according to the custom of the Country and afterwards spake unto him after this manner Dread King forsake me not who am thy servant neither reject thou my prayers For being dejected by means of my misfortunes and of a King become a private man I have need of thy succour Consider therefore the inconstancy of fortune and think with thy self that by providing for me thou shalt provide for thy self For if thou makest no reckoning of the wrong that is done unto me divers men will grow audacious to enterprize upon other Kings These words he pronounced with tears and with looks fixed upon the ground When Izates had heard Artabanus's name and saw his humble and submissive condition N Izates comforteth Artabanus and promiseth him his assistance he leapt immediatly from his Horse and said unto him King be of good courage and let not thy present and perplexed condition dishearten thee as if thy misfortunes were irrecoverable For this sorrow of thine shall be suddenly changed and thou shalt find a better friend and ally than thou hopest for at this time For either I will repossess thee of thy Kingdom of Parthia or I will lose mine own This said he caused Artabanus to get on Horsback and walked by him on foot yielding him this honour as to a greater King than himself Which when Artabanus saw he was discontented and sware by his Honour and Fortune to come that he would set foot on ground if he would not get up on horsback and ride before him whereunto he obeyed and mounting upon his Horse again he conducted him to his Palace yielding him all the O honor that was possible both in his Banquets and in his Assemblies not regarding his present condition but his former Dignity considering with himself that such casual A misfortunes and changes are incident to all men Moreover he wrote unto the Parthians perswading them to receive their King Artabanus assuring them on his Faith and Oath that he would obtain a free pardon for all that which was past and to that intent he offered himself to be an Arbitrator between them The Parthians gave him this answer Izates writeth to the Parthians and perswadeth them to receive their King that they would not refuse to entertain him but that they could not for that one who was called Cinnamus was advanced in his place and Dignity and that they feared lest a Sedition should happen amongst them Ginnamus who was a noble and honourable minded man knowing that their intent was such wrote himself unto Artabanus who had nourished and brought him up exhorting him to return upon his Faith Cinnamus restoreth the Kingdom to Artabanus and to receive again his own Kingdom Artabanus B upon this Motion gave credit to his words and returned back again Whereupon Cinnamus came forth and met him and prostrating himself before his feet called him King and afterwards taking the Diadem from off his own head he set it upon Artabanus head who by this means was restored to his former estate by Izates mediation after he had been driven out of his Kingdom by his chiefest Nobility And he did not forget the favours which he had received at Izates hands but did him all the honour that possibly he could imagine Izates receiveth great honours and gifts at Artabanus hands for he permitted him to wear the straight Tiara and to sleep upon a gilded Bed which is a Privilege which belongeth only to the Kings of Parthia He gave him also a plentiful and great Country which he had taken from the King of Armenia This Country was called Nisibis where in times past C the Macedonians had builded the City of Antioch Antiochia and Mygdonia builded by the Macedonians by them called Mygdonia Presently after Izates was thus honoured Artabanus died leaving his Kingdom to his Son Vardanes Vardanes after his fathers death laboureth to perswade Izates to make War against the Romans but he prevaileth not who repaired to Izates praying him to joyn with him in that War which he intended to make against the Romans but he prevailed not with him For Izates knowing the Romans force and good fortune imagined that he undertook a matter beyond his power Besides he had sent five of his young Sons to Jerusalem to learn our tongue and discipline and his Mother likewise to adore in the Temple for which cause he the rather held back and disswaded Vardanes from going against the Romans whose power and conquests he ordinarily reckoned up unto him to the end he might discourage him and by these assertions cause him to give over his purposed D intent of war against them But the Parthian was displeased with his perswasion and for that cause denounced a present War against Izates But his enterprize had but a fruitless issue for God cut off all his hopes For the Parthians understanding what Vardanes intent was After Vardanes was slain the Kingdom is committed to Gotarza and how he was resolved to make a War against the Romans killed him and gave the Kingdom to his Brother Gotarza whom not long after this his Brother Vologesus killed by treason restoring to his two Brothers by the Mothers side these Provinces that is to say the Kingdom of Media to Pacorus who was the eldest Vologesus King of

it would cost much time and expence he denied their request permitting them nevertheless to pave their City with broad Stone Matthias the Son of Theophilus High Priest He took the Priesthood from Jesus the Son of Gamaliel and gave it to Matthias the Son of Theophilus in whose time the Wars betwixt the Romans and the Jews began But I think it not amiss Hedio Ruffinus chap. 18. but very answerable to the course of this present History N to speak of the High Priests The Succession and number of the High Priests among the Jews and to shew how they had their beginning and to whom this honour may be lawfully communicated and how many they were in number until the end of the War The first of them was Aaron Moses's Brother after whose death his Children succeeded him and from that time forward the honour hath continued with their Successors For it is a Law observed by our Ancestors that no man should be admitted to the Priesthood There were eighty three High Priests in all except he be of Aaron's Posterity for albeit he were a King if so be that he were of another Line it was impossible for him to obtain the Priesthood All the Priests after Aaron who as we have said was the first until Phanasus whom the Seditious created Priest in the time of the War have been in number eighty three whereof thirteen have executed the Office from the time that O Moses erected God's Tabernacle in the Desart until such time as arriving in Judaea King Solomon builded a Temple to God For in the beginning the High Priesthood continued A with the Possessors for term of life but afterwards although the Priests were yet alive yet were there other Successors put in their rooms These thirteen were of Aaron's Posterity and obtained this degree in succession the one after the other Their first Government was Aristocracy which is the Government of the Nobility afterwards a Monarchy and at last a Royal Government The number of years wherein these thirteen flourished were six hundred and twelve years from the day that our Fathers departed out of Egypt under the conduct of Moses until the building of the Temple in Jerusalem by King Solomon After these thirteen High Priests there were eighteen others who after Solomon's time succeeded one after another until the time that Nabuchodonozor King of Babylon B having encamped before the City took it and burned the Temple and transported our Nation into Babylon and led away the High Priest Josedech Prisoner The time of the Priesthood and continuance of these eighteen was four hundred sixty years six months and ten days so long as the Jews have had the Royal Government After the surprizal of Jerusalem by the Babylonians until such time as Cyrus King of Persia dismissed the Jews and gave them leave to return from Babylon into their own Countrey with permission to re-edifie their Temple there are seventy two years and at that time the Captives being returned Jesus the Son of Josedech took upon him the High Priesthood who with those of his Posterity to the number of fifteen have governed in a Democracy or Popular Government until the time of Antiochus surnamed C Eupator for the space of four hundred and fourteen years This Antiochus was the first who with his General Lysias displaced Onias surnamed Menelaus of his Priesthood commanding him to be killed at Berith and after he had driven his Son out of the Succession he established Jacim High Priest who notwithstanding was of Aaron's Race but not of his Family For this cause Onias the Son of Onias and Nephew to the deceased Onias retired himself into Egypt Where growing familiar with Ptolomey Philometor and Cleopatra his Wife he perswaded them to build a Temple in the Confines of Heliopolis not unlike to that of Jerusalem and to create a High Priest in the same of which Temple in Egypt we have made very oftentimes mention After that Jacim had held the Priestood for the space of three years he died without D Successor so the City remained seven years without a High Priest Again the Asmoneans recovered the Government of their Nation and after they had made War against the Macedonians they established Jonathan High Priest who exercised the Office seven years but afterwards he was killed in an Ambush and Treason conspired against him by Tryphon as we have declared elsewhere After him Simon his Brother undertook the Priesthood who was not long after killed treacherously by his Son-in-Law at a Banquet After him succeeded his Son Hircanus who enjoying this Dignity for the space of thirty one years died when he was very old leaving behind him Judas surnamed Aristobulus who dying left his Brother Alexander his Heir both of the Kingdom and High Priesthood After that Aristobulus had obtained the E Royal Government he enjoyed both Dignities one whole year For this Judas surnamed Aristobulus was the first that set the Diadem on his head causing himself to be called a King the which Alexander did continue for he also joyned the Kingdom with the High Priesthood and reigned twenty seven years And feeling himself draw near to his death he left in Alexandras his Wife's hands to dispose of the Priesthood as she pleased She therefore bestowed it on Hircanus and as for the Kingdom she kept it in her own hands nine years and afterwards died Her Son Hircanus was High Priest for so long time For after Alexandra's death his Brother Aristobulus made War against him and having overcome him he took the Kingdom from him and not only seized on the Crown but the Priesthood After he had reigned three F years and as many months Pompey repaired to Jerusalem and took it perforce and laying hold of Aristobulus sent him bound unto Rome with his Children After which he restored the Priesthood once more to Hircanus committing the Government of the Nation unto his hands forbidding him in the mean space to wear the Diadem Besides the first nine years Hircanus governed twenty and four But Barzapharnes and Pacorus Princes of the Parthians passed Euphrates and made war against Hircanus and took him alive Prisoner and made Antigonus Aristobulus's Son King But after he had governed three years and three months Sosius and Herod took him alive perforce and Antonius sent him to Antioch where he was beheaded After that Herod was created King by the Romans there was never any High Priest created of G the Posterity of the Asmoneans for he gave the High Priesthood to certain men of obscure and base extraction who were of the Order of Priests Aristobulus only excepted This Aristobulus was Hircanus's Nephew who was a Prisoner among the Parthians and having given him the Priesthood he married Mariamne his Sister to the intent H to continue himself in the good liking of the people in remembrance of Hircanus But afterwards fearing lest all of them should turn to Aristobulus's