not for a little time, so
hath it endured a long while among them. This is demonstrated by that
institution of theirs, which will not suffer any thing to hinder them
from having all things in common; so that a rich man enjoys no more of
his own wealth than he who hath nothing at all. There are about four
thousand men that live in this way, and neither marry wives, nor are
desirous to keep servants; as thinking the latter tempts men to be
unjust, and the former gives the handle to domestic quarrels; but as
they live by themselves, they minister one to another. They also appoint
certain stewards to receive the incomes of their revenues, and of the
fruits of the ground; such as are good men and priests, who are to get
their corn and their food ready for them. They none of them differ from
others of the Essens in their way of living, but do the most resemble
those Dacae who are called Polistae [4] [dwellers in cities].

6. But of the fourth sect of Jewish philosophy, Judas the Galilean
was the author. These men agree in all other things with the Pharisaic
notions; but they have an inviolable attachment to liberty, and say that
God is to be their only Ruler and Lord. They also do not value dying any
kinds of death, nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations
and friends, nor can any such fear make them call any man lord. And
since this immovable resolution of theirs is well known to a great many,
I shall speak no further about that matter; nor am I afraid that any
thing I have said of them should be disbelieved, but rather fear, that
what I have said is beneath the resolution they show when they undergo
pain. And it was in Gessius Florus's time that the nation began to grow
mad with this distemper, who was our procurator, and who occasioned the
Jews to go wild with it by the abuse of his authority, and to make them
revolt from the Romans. And these are the sects of Jewish philosophy.

CHAPTER 2. Now Herod And Philip Built Several Cities In Honor Of Caesar.
Concerning The Succession Of Priests And Procurators; As Also What
Befell Phraates And The Parthians.

1. When Cyrenius had now disposed of Archelaus's money, and when the
taxings were come to a conclusion, which were made in the thirty-seventh
year of Caesar's victory over Antony at Actium, he deprived Joazar of
the high priesthood, which dignity had been conferred on him by the
multitude, and he appointed Ananus, the son of Seth, to be high priest;
w