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number of men grown up fit for war. He then came into it, 

 and slew all the youth, the Romans having no mercy on any age 

 whatsoever ; and this was done out of the hatred they hore the 

 nation, and because of the iniquity they had been guilty of in 

 the affair of Cestius. 



Obviously, then, Gadara was an ultra-Jewish 

 city. Q.E.D. But a student trained in the use 

 of weapons of precision, rather than in that of 

 rhetorical tomahawks, has had many and painful 

 warnings to look well about him, before trusting an 

 argument to the mercies of a passage, the context 

 of which he has not carefully considered. If Mr. 

 Gladstone had not been too much in a hurry to 

 turn his imaginary prize to account if he had 

 paused just to look at the preceding chapter of 

 Josephus he would have discovered that his 

 much haste meant very little speed. He would 

 have found ("JWars," III. vi. 2) that Vespasian 

 marched from his base, the port of Ptolemais 

 (Acre), on the shores of the Mediterranean into 

 Galilee ; and, having dealt with the so-called 

 " Gadara," was minded to finish with Jotapata, 

 a strong place about fourteen miles south-east of 

 Ptolemais, into which Josephus, who at first had 

 fled to Tiberias, eventually threw himself 

 Vespasian arriving before Jotapata " the very 

 next day." Now, if any one will take a decent 

 map of Ancient Palestine in hand, he will see that 

 Jotapata, as I have said, lies about fourteen miles 

 in a straight line east-south-east of Ptolemais, 



