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      instigators , Josdp&ifsi jBa < lei tiy name , James the brother of Jesus . For , in the succeeding chapter * he thus relates : " This younger An .

      anus was naughty in his behaviq ( x \\ Moreover , he was of the sect of ' the Saddticees , who , above all other Jews are severe in their judicial sentences . This Anaims calls a council of judges , and brings before them James , the brother of him who is called

      Christ , and some others , and accused them as transgressors of the laws , and had them stbned to death ! . But the men in the city , most distinguished for their

      probity and knowledge of the laws , Were grievously offended at this measure . They therefore sent privately to the king , entreating him to send orders to Ananus no

      more to attempt such things and some went away to meet Albinus , who was coming from Alexandria , and put him in mind that Ananus had no right to call a council without his leave .

      Albums approvingof what they said , wrpte to Ananus , in much anger , threatening to punish him for what he had done : and king Agrippa took away from him the highpriesthopd . " If the apostle Jam ^ s and his brethren here said to have been

      stoned , were in the number of those who $ 11 by the Sicarii , we are to understand that the chiefpriest and his associates , having passed the sentence of death on those good men , delivered them ° ver to the above assassins to be

      executed * The sentence was ™> Wn and allowed to be unjust ; and the hi g h reputation of J ^ mea ! , ptobity apd justice , rendered " unnttyt and eyeii daogejrous to ^^ fri ^ fintd ^ kecutionl Iiisuch

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      circumstances , it was natural for Ananus and his party , to apply to the enemies of the Christians , s ¦ "" and hire them to execute it .

      On ^ en , in his Commentary on Matthew xiii . 55 , 5 ( 5 , thus writes " This James was irt so great re-, pute with the people for his virtue , that Josephus , who wrote twenty books of the Jewish Antiquities , desirous to assign the reason of

      their suffering such things , as , that even the temple was destroyed , says , that these things were owing to the atnger of God , for what they did to James the brother of Jesus , called Christ . And it'is wonderful that he who did not

      believe our Jesus to be -the Christ , should bear such si . testimony to our James , He also says , that the people thought they suffered these things upon account of James . "

      Lardner supposes , that the passage to > vhich Origen refers , is n < n at present extant in the , works of Josephus . This , however , is one of the very many egregious mistakes which that critic has

      committed in regard to the Jewish historian . Origen alluded to the two passages quoted above from the Jewish antiquities * The quotation of Onsen it must be

      allowed , is not correct ; it being probably made from memory . Josephus , by the men whom the Sicarii slew , and to whose massacre he ascribes the destruction of Jerusalem , in * tends the Jewish believers . This

      intention Origen rightly compre - hended . Josephus personally mentions James by name ; and Origen has thence taken occasion to sav

      that according to Josephus , the sufferings of the Jciws were owing to the < fcatb of J&ine&alone ; whereas Jc ^ ep jbu ^ . msinuateis , that God brought purifyiftg fire on the Jews

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      Josephus ' $ Testimony to the Apostle James . 28 < J

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/33/