{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But not long after, one Alcimus, although an alien from the\r\nsacerdotal tribe, was, through ambition, made pontiff, which\r\nwas an impious thing. After almost fifty years, during which\r\nthey never had peace, although they prospered in some affairs,\r\nAristobulus first assumed the diadem among them, and was\r\nmade both king and pontiff. Before that, indeed, from the\r\ntime of their return from the Babylonish captivity and the\r\nrebuilding of the temple, they had not kings, but generals or\r\n<i>principes</i>. Although a king himself may be called a prince,\r\nfrom his principality in governing, and a leader, because he\r\nleads the army, but it does not follow that all who are princes\r\nand leaders may also be called kings, as that Aristobulus was.\r\nHe was succeeded by Alexander, also both king and pontiff,\r\nwho is reported to have reigned over them cruelly. After\r\nhim his wife Alexandra was queen of the Jews, and from her\r\ntime downwards more grievous evils pursued them; for this\r\nAlexandra's sons, Aristobulus and Hyrcanus, when contending\r\nwith each other for the kingdom, called in the Roman\r\nforces against the nation of Israel. For Hyrcanus asked\r\nassistance from them against his brother. At that time\r\nRome had already subdued Africa and Greece, and ruled\r\nextensively in other parts of the world also, and yet, as if\r\nunable to bear her own weight, had, in a manner, broken\r\nherself by her own size. For indeed she had come to grave\r\ndomestic seditions, and from that to social wars, and by and\r\nby to civil wars, and had enfeebled and worn herself out so\r\nmuch, that the changed state of the republic, in which she\r\nshould be governed by kings, was now imminent. Pompey\r\nthen, a most illustrious prince of the Roman people, having\r\nentered Judea with an army, took the city, threw open the\r\ntemple, not with the devotion of a suppliant, but with the\r\nauthority of a conqueror, and went, not reverently, but profanely,\r\ninto the holy of holies, where it was lawful for none\r\nbut the pontiff to enter. Having established Hyrcanus in the\r\npontificate, and set Antipater over the subjugated nation as<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_277\">[Pg 277]</a></span>\r\nguardian or procurator, as they were then called, he led\r\nAristobulus with him bound. From that time the Jews also\r\nbegan to be Roman tributaries. Afterward Cassius plundered\r\nthe very temple. Then after a few years it was their desert\r\nto have Herod, a king of foreign birth, in whose reign Christ\r\nwas born. For the time had now come signified by the\r\nprophetic Spirit through the mouth of the patriarch Jacob,\r\nwhen he says, \"There shall not be lacking a prince out of\r\nJudah, nor a teacher from his loins, until He shall come for\r\nwhom it is reserved; and He is the expectation of the nations.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_583_583\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_583_583\">[583]</a>\r\nThere lacked not therefore a Jewish prince of the Jews until\r\nthat Herod, who was the first king of a foreign race received\r\nby them. Therefore it was now the time when He should\r\ncome for whom that was reserved which is promised in the\r\nNew Testament, that He should be the expectation of the\r\nnations. But it was not possible that the nations should\r\nexpect He would come, as we see they did, to do judgment in\r\nthe splendour of power, unless they should first believe in\r\nHim when He came to suffer judgment in the humility of\r\npatience.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-463"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a57e2474e0a6505a93ab711521fc709202f4eeb97cf3a9853b35f19767877511","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":49,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xlix. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_583_583","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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