d, now he returned in much greater prosperity than he had
before. He also came to Jerusalem, and offered all the sacrifices that
belonged to him, and omitted nothing which the law required; [18] on
which account he ordained that many of the Nazarites should have their
heads shorn. And for the golden chain which had been given him by Caius,
of equal weight with that iron chain wherewith his royal hands had been
bound, he hung it up within the limits of the temple, over the treasury,
[19] that it might be a memorial of the severe fate he had lain under,
and a testimony of his change for the better; that it might be a
demonstration how the greatest prosperity may have a fall, and that God
sometimes raises up what is fallen down: for this chain thus dedicated
afforded a document to all men, that king Agrippa had been once bound in
a chain for a small cause, but recovered his former dignity again; and
a little while afterward got out of his bonds, and was advanced to be a
more illustrious king than he was before. Whence men may understand that
all that partake of human nature, how great soever they are, may fall;
and that those that fall may gain their former illustrious dignity
again.

2. And when Agrippa had entirely finished all the duties of the Divine
worship, he removed Theophilus, the son of Ananus, from the high
priesthood, and bestowed that honor of his on Simon the son of Boethus,
whose name was also Cantheras whose daughter king Herod married, as I
have related above. Simon, therefore, had the [high] priesthood with his
brethren, and with his father, in like manner as the sons of Simon, the
son of Onias, who were three, had it formerly under the government of
the Macedonians, as we have related in a former book.

3. When the king had settled the high priesthood after this manner, he
returned the kindness which the inhabitants of Jerusalem had showed him;
for he released them from the tax upon houses, every one of which paid
it before, thinking it a good thing to requite the tender affection of
those that loved him. He also made Silas the general of his forces, as a
man who had partaken with him in many of his troubles. But after a very
little while the young men of Doris, preferring a rash attempt before
piety, and being naturally bold and insolent, carried a statue of Caesar
into a synagogue of the Jews, and erected it there. This procedure
of theirs greatly provoked Agrippa; for it plainly tended to the
dissolu