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Moreover, as to the citizens of Jerusalem, although they took this
matter very ill, yet did they restrain their passion; but Florus acted
herein as if he had been hired, and blew up the war into a flame, and sent
some to take seventeen talents out of the sacred treasure, and pretended
that Caesar wanted them. At this the people were in confusion immediately,
and ran together to the temple, with prodigious clamors, and called upon
Caesar by name, and besought him to free them from the tyranny of Florus.
Some also of the seditious cried out upon Florus, and cast the greatest
reproaches upon him, and carried a basket about, and begged some spills
of money for him, as for one that was destitute of possessions, and in
a miserable condition. Yet was not he made ashamed hereby of his love of
money, but was more enraged, and provoked to get still more; and instead
of coming to Cesarea, as he ought to have done, and quenching the flame
of war, which was beginning thence, and so taking away the occasion of
any disturbances, on which account it was that he had received a reward
[of eight talents], he marched hastily with an army of horsemen and footmen
against Jerusalem, that he might gain his will by the arms of the Romans,
and might, by his terror, and by his threatenings, bring the city into
subjection.
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