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While I was thus speaking, the united voices of all the
people joined together, and called me their benefactor and
savior, and attested to my former behavior, and exhorted me to
continue so to do hereafter; and they all said, upon their oaths,
that their wives had been preserved free from injuries, and that
no one had ever been aggrieved by me. After this, I read to the
Galileans two of those epistles which had been sent by Jonathan
and his colleagues, and which those whom I had appointed to guard
the road had taken, and sent to me. These were full of
reproaches, and of lies, as if I had acted more like a tyrant
than a governor against them, with many other things besides
therein contained, which were no better indeed than impudent
falsities. I also informed the multitude how I came by these
letters, and that those who carried them delivered them up
voluntarily; for I was not willing that my enemies should know
any thing of the guards I had set, lest they should be afraid,
and leave off writing hereafter.
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