The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.d. (Volume 1); With a Life by Dr. Kippis - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt: ... their religion, though they be supposed to have been then under the Roman government, ts not at ail improbable. For the Romans had ever permitted the people they conquered to practise their own religious rites in their own way: and seem not to have departed from this principle, till after the period of the evangelical history. And that the Jews were now at full liberty to worship God, according to the institutions of Moses, we are assured by Josephus, who has left us the history of these times. The Roman presidents did indeed, for some time, put in, and turn out their high priests at pleasure. Valerius Gratus, Pilate's predecessor, made several htgh priests, in the time of his government." The last high priest he made was Caiaphas, who continued in that office during all Pilate's administration. He being removed from the province, Vitellius, president of Syria, put in Jonathan the son of Ananus, or Annas;k and afterward Theophilus, another son of Ananus, in the room of Jonathan.0 But m this there was nothing unusual or extraordinary. Herod the Great and Archelaus had been wont, before this, to constitute and remove the high priests at pleasure/1 Theophilus, just now mentioned, continued high priest till Herod Agrippa, mentioned Acts xii. then king of all Judea, displaced him, and put Simon the son of Boethus into his room.0 However, thts Herod was a Jew; and from thence to the time the war broke out with the Romans, the nomination of the high priests, and the government of the temple, were committed to princes of the Jewish religion, by the direction of the Roman emperors. After the death of Herod Agrippa, Claudius invested Herod king of Chaicis, brother of Herod Agrippa, with these powers;f and after his death, Agrippa the younger, son of the said Herod ...