A History of the New Testament Times
A History of the New Testament Times
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* Ant. iii. 15, 3, the original authority, according to which the culminating point of the famine occurs during the high-priesthood of Ishmael. This name must refer to the son of Cantheras, who was high-priest under Fadus, and bore the surname Ehonseus, for Ishmael ben Phabi was not high-priest till the time of Nero.
3 Dio, 60, 11 ; cf. 10 and 16. ♦ Suet. Claud. 19. « Dio, 60, 11.
Digitized by VjOOQIC 188 THE FATE OF CHRISTIANITY IN PALESTINE, puts it. Yet he tells, as an instance of anc...ient greatness, how, while the people were dying of hunger in crowds, the priests, themselves starving, offered the forty-one due measures of com at the Passover, not a grain being used for any other purpose.
" It is corban, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me," was once Jesus' scornful criticism of these Pharisees.^ According to the reminiscences of the Apocalypse, one measure of wheat (i.e. two handfuls, or cotylae), or three measures of barley, cost a denarius or sevenpence-halfpenny, and therefore one day's ration of bread a whole day's wages.^ The prices given by Josephus are still higher, for at the Pass- over, when the winter stores were consumed, one assaron cost four denarii, the normal price being twelve for half a denarius.^ These were the days in which a man like Theudas wished to lead the starving people across Jordan to a land flowing with milk and honey — the time of the third seal, of which the Apoca- lypse says : " When the Lamb had opened the third seal, 1 heard the third beast say, Come and see.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
28—30.
* Ant. iii. 15, 3, the original authority, according to which the culminating point of the famine occurs during the high-priesthood of Ishmael. This name must refer to the son of Cantheras, who was high-priest under Fadus, and bore the surname Ehonseus, for Ishmael ben Phabi was not high-priest till the time of Nero.
3 Dio, 60, 11 ; cf. 10 and 16. ♦ Suet. Claud. 19. « Dio, 60, 11.
Digitized by VjOOQIC 188 THE FATE OF CHRISTIANITY IN PALESTINE, puts it. Yet he tells, as an instance of anc...ient greatness, how, while the people were dying of hunger in crowds, the priests, themselves starving, offered the forty-one due measures of com at the Passover, not a grain being used for any other purpose.
" It is corban, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me," was once Jesus' scornful criticism of these Pharisees.^ According to the reminiscences of the Apocalypse, one measure of wheat (i.e. two handfuls, or cotylae), or three measures of barley, cost a denarius or sevenpence-halfpenny, and therefore one day's ration of bread a whole day's wages.^ The prices given by Josephus are still higher, for at the Pass- over, when the winter stores were consumed, one assaron cost four denarii, the normal price being twelve for half a denarius.^ These were the days in which a man like Theudas wished to lead the starving people across Jordan to a land flowing with milk and honey — the time of the third seal, of which the Apoca- lypse says : " When the Lamb had opened the third seal, 1 heard the third beast say, Come and see.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Adolf Hausrath to read onlineMoreLess
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