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29 book of  his  Antiquities,  adds  the  following:  "  But  Quirinius,  who belonged  to  the  senate,  and  having  enjoying  other  offices,  advanced through  all  the  grades  of  office  to  the  consulship,  a  man  also  of great  dignity  in  other  respects,  by  the  appointment  of  Cesar,  came to  Syria,  with  a  small  force,  and  with  judicial  power  over  the people,  to  take  a  valuation  of  their  property." A little  after  he says:  "  But  Judas,  the  Gaulonite,  sprung  from  the  town  called Gamala,  together  with  Sadducus,  a  Pharisee,  headed  a  revolt  of the  people,  saying  that  the  assessment  had  nothing  else  in  view but  manifest  slavery;  and  they  exhorted  the  people  to  assert  their liberty." He also  writes  in  the  second  book  of  the  history  of  the Jewish War,  concerning  the  same  man:  "  About  this  time  a  certain Judas  of  Galilee,  stimulated  the  inhabitants  to  revolt,  urging it  as  a  reproach,  that  they  endured  paying  tribute,  and  that  they who  had  God  for  their  master,  suffered  mortals  to  usurp  the  sovereignty over  them." Thus far  Josephus.

At the  time  that  Herod  was  king,  who  was  the  first  foreigner that reigned  over  the  Jewish  people,  the  prophecy  recorded  by Moses  received  its  fulfilment,  viz. " That  a  prince  should  not  fail of  Judah,  nor  a  ruler  from  his  loins,  until  he  should  come  for  whom it  is  reserved." The same,  he  also  shows,  would  be  the  expectation of  the  nations. The prediction  was  evidently  not  accomplished, as  long  as  they  were  at  liberty  to  have  their  own  native rulers, which  continued  from  the  time  of  Moses  down  to  the  reign of Augustus. Under him,  Herod  was  the  first  foreigner  that  obtained the  government  of  the  Jews. Since, as  Josephus  has  writ-