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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

God in the Tabernacle So that our Ancestors observ'd them so religiously during some ages that they thought that neither the pleasures of Peace nor the distresses of War could render them excusable O if they violated the same But I will now cease to speak of these Laws being resolved to compose another Treatise touching them A CHAP. V. The Ordinances of Sacrifices and Purifications Levit. 1. I will here mention onely some few Laws touching Purifications and Sacrifices in that we have begun to speak of Sacrifices Hedio Ruffinus chap. 13 ad 12. The sacrifices are of two sorts some particular Two kinds of sacrifices others publique and these are made after two different manners for in the one all is consumed which is upon the Altar which for that cause are called Holocausts Holocautoma Lev. 1 ad 10. that is to say Burned The other are of thanksgiving and they are made with banquets of those that sacrifice But first of all I will speak of the first kind B The particular person that offers a burnt-offering brings an Oxe a Lamb and a Goat of one year old yet it is lawful to kill Oxen that are older But all those Creatures which must be consumed by fire ought to be males and after their throats are cut the Priests besprinkle the Altar round about with the blood then dress the Beast and cut it in pieces and powder it with salt and lay it on the Altar already charged with cleft wood already kindled after they have well cleansed the feet and entrails they lay them with the rest and the Priests take the skins Such is the manner of a burnt-offering or Holocaust They that offer sacrifices of thanksgiving kill likewise such sort of beasts without spot A sacrifice of thanksgiving Lev. 4. 5. and more than a year old both male and female and after they have cut their throats they sprinkle the blood on the Altar C then take they the rains the caul and all the fat with the lobe of the liver and the tail of the Lamb and lay it on the Altar but the breast and the left leg is left to the Priests and as touching the rest of the flesh the Priests banquet therewith for the space of two days and if then there remain any thing thereof it is burned The same custome and ceremonie likewise is observed in the sacrifice for sins but those that are not of ability to offer the greater offerings offer two Pigeons or two Turtles the one of which the Priests have to feast withal and the other is consumed with fire We will treat more expresly of the sacrifice of such beasts at such time as we shall discourse of sacrifices For he that hath sinned through ignorance offereth a Lamb and a she-goat at the same time The sacrifice for sin The Priest besprinkleth the Altar with the blood D thereof not in such manner as is said before but the Horns of the Altar only and on the Altar they offer the kidneys and the rest of the fat with the lobe of the lives the Priests carry away the skins and ●at the flesh within the Temple the very same day because the Law permitteth them not to reserve any thing till the next morning The sacrifice of him that hath sinned wittingly He that hath sinned voluntarily but secretly offereth a Lamb according as the Law commandeth the flesh whereof is in like sort eaten by the Priests the same day But if the Governors offer for their sins Lev. 4 9. they sacrifice in like manner as private Men do and ●re different from them in that they bring a Bull or a male-kid The Law also ordaineth that in sacrifices both private and publique there should be fine flower brought for a Lamb The custom observed in sacrifices the measure of an Asser for a Ram the measure of two for a Bull E three which flower is first of all mingled and wrought with Oyl and set upon the Altar to be sanctified They that sacrifice likewise do bring Oyl the half part of a Hin for a Bull for a Ram the third part of the same measure and for a Lamb the fourth part This Hin is an Hebrew measure which containeth two Attique Choas They bring also the like measure of Wine as of Oyl and pour out the Wine about the Altar And if any one to accomplish a vow without sacrificing offer up fine flower he putteth the first-fruits upon the Altar that is to say one handful and the rest is taken by the Priests for their maintenance either fryed by kneading it in Oyl or making cakes thereof but whatsoever the Priest offereth all that must be burned The Law likewise forbiddeth to offer the young of any Beast whatsoever with its Dam F if it hath not fed eight days at least There are also other sacrifices made for deliverance from sickness or for other causes in which sacrifice they imploy Wine to make cakes which are eaten with the flesh of the Beasts of which it is not lawful to reserve any thing against the next morning when the Priests have taken that portion which belongeth to and sufficeth them Numb 28. v. 3 4. The Law commandeth that on the common purse there be every day killed a Lamb of a year old the one in the morning the other at the shutting up of the evening and on the seventh day which is called the Sabbath that two be offered in that manner as hath been declared And on the new Moon besides their daily offerings they sacrifice two Oxen seven yearling Lambs and a Wether and a Kid for the abolition of those sins which are committed through forgetfulness G On the seventh month which the Macedonians call Hyperberet●on besides the above-named v. 19 they sacrifice a Bull The sacrifice of the month of October one Mutton seven Lambs and a Kid for a sin offering The tenth day of the same month according to the Moon they fast till the evening and on the same day they sacrifice a Bull two Muttons seven Lambs and a Goat for H a sin-offering besides which they bring two Kids one of which is sent alive out of the limits of the Camp into the desart on whom all the evil may fall if so be any be threatned to the People the other is carried without the Camp into a clean place where it is burned with the Skin without reserving any thing thereof In like manner they burn a Bull which is not allowed out of the common charge but at the proper costs of the Priest This Bull being opened and slain and the blood thereof with that of the Goat being carried into the Tabernacle he sprinkleth the cover thereof with his finger seven times and the pavement as often and the Tabernacle and the Altar of Gold and all the rest about the great Altar which is abroad in the court After this they set on the

that if Antigonus came armed they should kill him himself then lodging in a certain Castle which in times past was called Bari and afterwards Antonia by Herod in honour of Antonius with this Commission that if Antigonus came unarmed they should let him pass if otherwise they should kill him He sent certain Messengers also to Antigonus requiring him to repair unto him dis-armed But the wicked Queen prevented this good intent of his by a subtil stratagem complotted by those that with her conspired against him The Queen 's cunning Stratagem against Antigonus for she perswaded those that were to carry this message to discover nothing of what the King had commanded them but to tell Antigonus that his Brother having intelligence that he had brought very goodly Armour with other C fair Furniture for War from Galilee desired him to come to him arm'd as he was that he might have the pleasure to see him in his Warlike Ornaments Antigonus suspecteth not his Brother Which when Antigonus understood who by reason of his Brother's affection suspected no mischief he armed himself and resorted to him intending to content him with his appearance But no sooner arrived he in the strait which is called the Tower of Straton but the Guard of Aristobulus set upon him and slaughtered him yielding by this means a demonstrative testimony that Detraction is able to destroy all good nature and friendship and that there is no union of affection so great as it can always resist the attempts of envy to ruine it In this Occurrence there happened a thing which cannot be too much admired Judas the Prophet foretelleth Antigonus's death D One Judas who was of the Sect of the Esseans had so certain a knowledge of the Future that his Predictions were never found false This man beholding Antigonus pass thorough the Temple cried out to his familiars who attended him in no small number as ordinarily divers of his Disciples did Ah how happy were it for me at this present if I were dead since truth is dead before me and one of my Predictions is found faulty For behold Antigonus yet liveth who should this day have died in the Tower of Straton which is distant from this place six hundred furlongs and 't is now the fourth hour of the day now therefore is the time wherein my Divination shall be falsified Having spoken to this effect the old man sat down being altogether disconsolate and pensive within a while after it was told him that Antigonus was slain in a place under E ground called the Tower of Straton being of the same name with that at Caesarea which is scituate upon the Sea-coast which conformity of names was the cause that Judas staggered in his Divination The sorrow which incontinently seized Aristobulus Aristobulus through the grief he conceived at his Brother's death falleth sick for committing this hainous Murther augmented his sickness in such sort that his Soul was continually troubled with the thought of his sin and his body through extream heat of passion became dried up and the grief that he felt was so vehement that his Entrails became exulcerated so that he voided blood in great abundance And it so fell out by God's Providence that one of his Servants who was deputed to that Office bearing out that blood which came from him A Servant spilleth blood in the same place where Antigonus was slain missed his way and came to that place where Antigonus had F been slain where still there appeared some signs and stains of the blood of Antigonus on which he poured out the blood of the Murtherer Aristobulus Which when they perceived who stood hard by imagining that the Servant had purposely spilled the blood in that place as it were in Sacrifice to the Ghost of that Prince they cryed out so loud that Aristobulus hearing their cry demanded the cause thereof and the more that each man feared to discover the same to him the more instantly he desired to understand the truth so that at length after he had used threats he was certified of what had passed Whereupon his eyes were suddenly filled with tears and in vehement agony of mind The eye of God discovereth every sin he cryed out and said How could I hope but that the great eye of the Divine Majesty should see my wicked acts and the sudden vengeance of my Brother's blood G pursue and overtake me Aristobulus dieth miserably How long O thou miserable Body wilt thou detain my Soul from being sacrificed to the vengeance of my Mother and Brother's death Why do I thus lingeringly languish in offering a part of my blood unto them Let them take it all at once and let not the Divine Vengeance laugh any longer to see the effusion of mine Entrails The year of the World 3862. before Christ's Nativity 100 H This said he died after he had only reigned one year His Wife after his death delivered his Brother Alexander from Prison and established him King who was both the eldest and seemed to be the most moderate among the rest of his Brethren Ant. l. 13. c. 9 But growing by this means both proud and potent he put one of his Brethren to death Alexander advanced to the Kingdom useth much cruelty for aspiring after the Kingdom but spared the other alive for that he contented himself with a private and contemplative life He made War also against Ptolomey that was called Lathyrus who had surprized the City of Asoth and put a great number of his enemies to the Sword nevertheless Ptolomey's side obtained the Victory But retiring himself into the Countrey of Egypt by reason that his Mother Cleopatra pursued him with open War Alexander forcibly entred the City I of Gadara Alexander is overthrown by Theodore and the Fort of Amath one of the greatest of all those that were beyond Jordan in which place Theodore Zeno's Son had hoarded up his chiefest and most precious moveables which he took but enjoyed not long for Theodore suddenly setting upon him recovered all that which was his and furthermore laid hands on the King's Carriage in seizing which he slaughtered many Jews to the number of ten thousand But Alexander after he had recovered this loss invaded the Frontire Towns upon the Sea-coast and won Rapha Gaza and Anthedon which afterwards by King Herod was called Agrippias The Sedition of the Jews against Alexander upon a Festival day But after he had conquered these places the common sort of the Jews raised a mutiny against him during a certain solemn and holy Feast as Mutinies and Seditions are commonly raised at Banquets and it is K thought that he could not have prevailed against those Rebels had he not been assisted by the Pisidians and Cilicians whom he hired to help him for the Syrians he refused to hire by reason of their natural hatred they bare against the Jews Having therefore slain