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COMPILED BY A JEW NAMED ÆNEAS; TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW TONGUE INTO THE ROMAN BY NICODEMUS, A ROMAN TOPARCH.

the kingdom of the Hebrews was abolished, four hundred years had passed away, and the Hebrews were tributaries under the government of the Romans, the king of the Romans appointing for them a king; Tiberius Cæsar at length wielded the Roman sceptre, and in the eighteenth year of his reign he appointed as king in Judea, Herod, the son of that Herod who slew the infants in Bethlehem, and he had Pilate for governor in Jerusalem; Annas