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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48432	A commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles, chronicall and criticall the difficulties of the text explained, and the times of the story cast into annals : the first part, from the beginning of the Booke, to the end of the twelfth chapter : with a briefe survey of the contemporary story of the Jews and Romans / by John Lightfoot ...	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2052; ESTC R21614	222,662	354

Warre and knowing without a prompter what it was to defie the Romans condescendeth readily to the motion and Vitellius and hee meeting upon a bridge made over Euphrates for that purpose each with a guard about him conclude upon Articles of agreement and Herod the Tetrarch entertaineth them both in a pavilion curiously seated in the midst of the streame Not long after this Artabanus sendeth Darius his son for an hostage to Tiberius and withall he sendeth Eleazar a Jew of seven cubits high for a present and many other gifts Sect. 3. A Commotion in Cappadocia Whilst matters went thus unquietly in Parthia the Calite a Nation of Cappadocia grew discontented about paying tribute to the Romans so departed into the mountaine Taurus and there fortifie resolving as they never had used to pay such taxations so never to learne nor to use to doe so Archelaus was now King but not now King of them for the strength of the mountains and the desperatenes of their resolution do animate them to withstand him and to rebell against the Romans When tydings of this was brought to Vitellius into Syria he dispatcheth away M. Trebellius with foure thousand legionary Souldiers and some other Forces raised otherwayes to bring the Rebells to obedience or to ruine Trebellius invironeth with workes and men two hills Cadra and Davara where they were the most strongly trenched and those that were so hardy as to come forth hee subdueth with the sword and the rest with famishing Sect. IIII. Bloodshed at Rome These diseases of the Roman body were far from the heart and yet was the heart the Citie it self but little the better for though some veines were opened in these warres which one would have thought should have turned the blood another way yet did the Citie through the cruelty of the Emperour bleed inwardly still For L. Aruleius and some others died by the hand of the Executioner and C. Galba two of the Blesii and the Lady Aemylia Lepida by their owne hands But the example of the greatest terror was Vibulenus Agrippa a Knight who being at the barre when he had heard what his accusers could say against him and despairing to escape hee tooke poyson out of his bosome in the face of the Court Dion saith hee sucked it out of his Ring and swallowed it and sank downe and was ready to die yet was hee haled away to prison and there strangled Sect. V. Mishaps Besides this deluge of blood which overflowed the Citie continually there was also this yeer a deluge of water For Tiber rose so high and violently into the town that many streets became navigable and where men had walked lately on their feet they might have passed now up and downe in ships And a greater misfortune happened this yeer likewise by the contrary element for a terrible fire consumed the buildings of the mount Aventine and that part of the Circus that lay betwixt that and the Palace For the repaire of all which again Tiberius out of his own treasure gave a great summe of money Tacitus saith Millies Sestertium which according to the value and reckoning of our English coine amounted to eight hundred thousand pounds within nineteen thousand A summe not strange in an Emperours coffer at Rome where the vastnesse of the Empire brought in vast revenues but somewhat strange out of the purse of Tiberius for so good a purpose whose covetousnesse was larger then those whole revenues And therefore as I cannot but observe the difference of Dion about this liberality of the Emperour from Tacitus and the difference of his translator from his Text so can I not but conceive his computation and account to be the more probable in regard of the niggardise of the Emperour For whereas the summe of Tacitus is eight hundred thousand within nineteen hee hath so farre come short of such a reckoning that he maketh nineteen thousand pounds to bee the whole account For Tiberius saith he gave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 two thousand and five hundred thousand meaning ●600 sestertia and each sestertium containing a thousand Sestertios this accreweth to about the summe last named of 19000 l. and yet hath his translator forsaken his Greek and followed Tacitus Latine to so vast a difference PART III. The Jewish Story Sect. I. A commotion in Samaria Pilate out of office A Great space of time is past since wee heard any newes of Pontius Pilate and news it is indeed that his malicious and stirring spirit hath not entertained us with some bloody tragedy or other of all this while His government draweth now neer its expiration for he is going upon the tenth yeere of it and it is a kind of miracle if so mischievous an agent should part withour acting some mischiefe before his exit and this at last hee did which put him out of office There was a certain impostor among the Samaritans Simon Magus as like as any that would perswade the people that in mount Gerizim he could shew them holy vessels which Moses had hid and laid up there with his owne hand The credulous vulgar meet by multitudes at a certain Village called Tira●haba intending when their company was full to goe see these sacred reliques But Pilate before-hand takes the passages with his Horse and Foot and falling upon those that were thus assembled some he slew others he took captive and the rest fled Of those that he captived hee caused the noblest and most principall to bee put to death For this fact the chiefe men of Samaria accuse him to Vitellius who commands him to Rome there to answer before the Emperour what should bee objected against him and in his stead he made Marcellus a friend of his owne the Governour of Iudea but before Pilate came to Rome Tiberius was dead Yet hath Eusebius put off the testimony that Pilate is said to have given to Tiberius concerning the death and resurrection of Christ and concerning the wonders wrought by him till the next yeare following A relation doubtfull in it selfe but more then doubtfull in the issue For first though it be granted that Pilate bare witnesse to the works and wonders done by Christ and gave testimony to his resurrection which yet to beleeve requireth a better evidence then I can find any Yet secondly the Epistle that is pretended for this his certificate by Hegesippus cannot be that originall one that Tertullian and out of him Eusebius do mention because it is indorsed to Claudius and not to Tiberius Thirdly though both these were confessed and agreed unto that Pilate wrote a Letter to Tiberius to such a purpose and that this was the Letter or some other that Tertullian had seen yet can I never find the Emperour of so good a nature and respective a disposition as to give the desert of goodnesse its due be it never so eminent and conspicuous or bee it in what kind soever Fourthly and lastly that which maketh all the rest of the story to