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Now, as soon as Jonathan and his companions heard of my
coming, they took all their own friends, and John with them, and
retired to the house of Jesus, which indeed was a large castle,
and no way unlike a citadel; so they privately laid a band of
armed men therein, and shut all the other doors but one, which
they kept open, and they expected that I should come out of the
road to them, to salute them. And indeed they had given orders to
the armed men, that when I came they should let nobody besides me
come in, but should exclude others; as supposing that, by this
means, they should easily get me under their power: but they were
deceived in their expectation; for I perceived what snares they
had laid for me. Now, as soon as I was got off my journey, I took
up my lodgings over against them, and pretended to be asleep; so
Jonathan and his party, thinking that I was really asleep and at
rest, made haste to go down into the plain, to persuade the
people that I was an ill governor. But the matter proved
otherwise; for, upon their appearance, there was a cry made by
the Galileans immediately, declaring their good opinion of me as
their governor; and they made a clamor against Jonathan and his
partners for coming to them when they had suffered no harm, and
as though they would overturn their happy settlement; and desired
them by all means to go back again, for that they would never be
persuaded to have any other to rule over them but myself. When I
heard of this, I did not fear to go down into the midst of them;
I went, therefore, myself down presently to hear what Jonathan
and his companions said. As soon as I appeared, there was
immediately an acclamation made to me by the whole multitude, and
a cry in my commendation by them, who confessed their thanks was
owing to me for my good government of them.
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