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his s reign, have showt him feet in 
Jofephus, Antiq. lib. xvii. engi Lardner, Univer. 
Fit 
Hines Antipas, or the tetrarch, fon of the preceding, 
by his wife Malthace, fucceeded, at the d death of his father, 
to the poffeffion of a great part of Galilee, and the coun- 
This is the perfon sere to by St. 
d of God 
came to John in the fifteen Tiberius, nes "was 
tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea,’’ 
s, they were in poffeffion of the fame territories and 
ghter of Aretas, an Arabian wre whom he put 
ay, in ordér that he might marry erodias, the wite 
of his a Philip. ‘This involved him in a war that was - 
carried on to his 
difadvantage full four years; italfo, on 
account of ot inceftuous nature of his fecond marriage, dif- - 
fted his own fubje@ts, and drew upon him the repreaches' 
of John the Baptift, which were the occafion of that excel- 
The lofs of his liberty was not 
reward for her 
been fos » hichly delighted, as to promife her 
dinates fhe fhould demand, John was beheaded ; but the 
ambition of vices’ ai was not fatiated. Their seekaiah, 
Herod Acrippa, (fee the article,) had obtained regal © 
honours from Caligula; fhe was defirous of the fame dif- - 
- tin¢tion for ‘her hufband, and: sscviced him, much againft -ni Be 
-whether we underftand it of. Herod the. 
his inclination, to take a journey to Rome for ‘the parpoe. 
Here, however, he was —_ of being concerned ‘in 
-eonfpiracy with Sejanus, and inftead of re — ne ibe a 
king, he was ftript of his pi and fen 
wife, into exile at Lyons, where he probably died, having 1 
poffeffed his tetrarchy forty-three years. JofephusydLardner, 
New Teftament. 
HERODIAN, a Greek hiftorian, who flourithed from 
the reign of Commodae to that of the third Gordian, was 
born at Alexandria, and employed among the officers of 
the Fsiceom emperors. He wrote a hiftory of Rome, in 
“eight books, from the death of-Marcus Aurelius to Max- 
‘Iminus, and he afferts that he had either feen or been 
fonally acquainted with all that he relates. Hi oie 
: ec ed sedans tinea es = he ters aw with a pr sors and pe- with 
no elevation o 
he A 
“Initory, 1 idea o eatin, an awkward 
3 oe cin Grape The Secpunt:-of 
giv Herodian, is rational and moderate, 
‘tlone 
‘the Mefiiah : 
-who neigned at wi time of his sperfonal miniltry 3 dt r 
U 
t — the age, and, in fome of the mof in- © 
H_E-R 
vidious particulars, confirmed by the decifive fragments ts of 
Dion. Yet, from a paltry prejudice, the greater number of 
-our modern writers abufe Herodian, and copy the Auguttan 
-hiftory.”’ 
His hook comprehends the hiftory of nearly 70 
years. The beft a of this author is ** Herodiani Hifs 
toria,”” 4to. Gr. Politiani, Lovan. 1525. Thisedition is men. 
d by Dr. Harwood as exceedingly fearce, correét, and 
truly valuable. Politian publifhed an elegant tranflation 
of this hiftorian, which was firft publifhed m a fol. volume 
in 1493> andi is contained in the Aldine edition, Venet. The 
-that projeéted by Leifner, and after his death} in 1767, coms 
pleted by omega Lipf. 8vo. gion ae o5. Gr. and Lat. 
5 vols. n. Harwood. Dibdi 
HERODIA NS, a fect among s Jews, at the He of 
Jefus cies mirsitiodad by St. Matthew, xxii. 16. and St. 
iii, 15; and xii. 13.. but pafled over in fits 
Mark, i. 6. v 
beth by Som and Philo, 
F he critics and Sempnenbatons on the New Tehanen are 
gard to the Herodian ; fom ome 
Saleen tenets. a 
meant by the Lpmen of the Herodians Fugit he a Sina 
"St i in his ielogte again{t the Luciferians, takes 
the name to have been give od for 
aed Teta, Epiphani us, Chryio 
Theophylaét, among the ancients 5 
ame fentime 
oon after our Saviour was born, or of Herod An ntipasy 
er for the 
who bad hen fo exprelly promifed ‘or z 
agreeably to which the Sy riac in- 
aoe render the word by the domefics of of He od a 
courtiers. 
M. Simon, in his notes on the tony eon apn 
Matthew, advances.a more og bable opinion. ‘Herodiam 
