sar.

3. "Caesar to Norbanus Flaccus, sendeth greeting. Let those Jews, how
many soever they be, who have been used, according to their ancient
custom, to send their sacred money to Jerusalem, do the same freely."
These were the decrees of Caesar.

4. Agrippa also did himself write after the manner following, on behalf
of the Jews: "Agrippa, to the magistrates, senate, and people of the
Ephesians, sendeth greeting. I will that the care and custody of the
sacred money that is carried to the temple at Jerusalem be left to the
Jews of Asia, to do with it according to their ancient custom; and that
such as steal that sacred money of the Jews, and fly to a sanctuary,
shall be taken thence and delivered to the Jews, by the same law that
sacrilegious persons are taken thence. I have also written to Sylvanus
the praetor, that no one compel the Jews to come before a judge on the
sabbath day."

5. "Marcus Agrippa to the magistrates, senate, and people of Cyrene,
sendeth greeting. The Jews of Cyrene have interceded with me for the
performance of what Augustus sent orders about to Flavius, the then
praetor of Libya, and to the other procurators of that province, that
the sacred money may be sent to Jerusalem freely, as hath been their
custom from their forefathers, they complaining that they are abused by
certain informers, and under pretense of taxes which were not due, are
hindered from sending them, which I command to be restored without any
diminution or disturbance given to them. And if any of that sacred money
in the cities be taken from their proper receivers, I further enjoin,
that the same be exactly returned to the Jews in that place."

6. "Caius Norbanus Flaccus, proconsul, to the magistrates of the
Sardians, sendeth greeting. Caesar hath written to me, and commanded
me not to forbid the Jews, how many soever they be, from assembling
together according to the custom of their forefathers, nor from sending
their money to Jerusalem. I have therefore written to you, that you may
know that both Caesar and I would have you act accordingly."

7. Nor did Julius Antonius, the proconsul, write otherwise. "To the
magistrates, senate, and people of the Ephesians, sendeth greeting. As
I was dispensing justice at Ephesus, on the Ides of February, the Jews
that dwell in Asia demonstrated to me that Augustus and Agrippa had
permitted them to use their own laws and customs, and to offer those
their first-fruits, which every one of t