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Terodian he imagines to have been given to fuchas adhered 
to Herod's party and intereft, and were for preferving the 
i government in his family ; about which there were, at that 
time, great divifions among the Jews. ; 
ror i douin will have the Herodians and Sadducees to have 
been the fame: nor isit at all improbable, that the Herodians 
were chiefly of the fect of the Sadducees; fince that which 
: a is be 
St. Matthew (xvi. 6.) 
cees : 
‘Mr. Bafnage, and fome others, fuppofe that they were 
certain officers of Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, who came up 
to Jerufalem at the feafts, and who were more 
the interefts of the emperor than fome of the Jews; and, 
therefore, the Pharifees perfuaded fome of them to go along 
with'their own difciples, when they “fent them to our Saviour 
with the queftion concerning the lawfulnefs of tribute. ~The 
learned Albert Fabricius fuppofed, that they were the cour-. + 
tiers and foldiers of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee ; 
and thatthe name Herodians no more denotes a fect, than. 
Czfareans and Pompeians, or any fuch like name, would do, 
Dr. Prideanx is of opinion that they derived their name 
from Herod the Great, and that they were diitinguifhed- 
from the other Jews by their concurrence with Herod’s 
fcheme of fubjeGting himfelf and his dominions to the’ 
Romans, and likewife by complying with many of their 
heathen ufages and’ cuftoms. 
“In their zeal forthe R 
fore, with the Pharifees againft Chritt, is a memorable proo 
i ice againft him ; 
. 
pecially, when we confider that they united together in nattie 
rodians would aceufe him 
uld he reply in the af- 
rmative, the Pharifees were as ready to excite the people 
i o their civil liberties and privileges. 
Herod had introduced feveral heathen idolatrous ufages 5 tory 
iq. hi i to 
ell; Jad. 1.1. ¢. 33 
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urn 
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bolizing with idolatry upon views of intereft and worldly 
} Herod, againtt which’ 
Cur Saviour cautioned his difciples, Prid. Conn. part i 
oad ub fin. eas ands 
HERODICUS, in Biography, an ancient eian, 
chiefly celebrated as the fete jras been called 
“le gymnaftic medicine, is faid by Plutarch to have been 
native of Selymbria, a city of Thrace ; but fome ert 
. he. : e was mafter of a fchool of exer- 
devoted to. 
. pedeftrian excurtion from Athens to Megara, a 
the youth reforted for the pur- 
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ferving the great improvement of the health conneéed with 
them, he turned hisattention’to the invention of exercifes for 
the cure of difeafes. Galen.confiders Efculapius as the author 
‘of: the gymnatlic medicine, becaufe he prefcribed the exer- 
directe 
cife of riding on horfeback, certain modes of it 
for invalids: but Heredicus appears to have been mot 
more 
-fyftematic in his methods ; and defifted from teaching the 
military exercifes, in order to devote himfelf exclugety to. 
the gymaattic medicine, and to afcertain the regulations of 
it: moft conducive to its proper end, according to the differ. 
ence of age, conftitution, and diforder of the patient, and to 
the climate, feafon, &c. e precepts likewife incl 
regulations relative to diet and abflinence ; but as the works 
of Flerodicus are loft, the nature of thefe regulations and pre- 
urately known. Hippocrates, indeed, has 
given an opinion refpecting the practice of Herodicus, which 
; is {kill, ‘ Herodicus,"’ he 
and reudered them pale and 
alfo fpoken of Herodicus and his fyftem in a fimilar manner. 
After ftating, in one paflage, that ‘ Herodicus, being of 
afickly habit of body, combined gymnattics with medicine, 
and haraffed, firft himfelfy and afterwar 
the immoderate ufe of exercile;”. (De Republica, lib. ii. 
he expatiates, in another place, upon the dangers and incon- 
veniencies of this pl 
anc 
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180 ftadia, or upwards of twenty Englith miles, but with 
” this exprefs injunction, that when he reached the walls of Me- 
ara he fhould ftraightway return to Athens. (Plat. Phadr.) 
Hippocrates reforted to the gym- 
4i 
were Diocles, 
fequently were ineffe€tual. 
hat Herodorus was victor ia 
been crowned at 
the games for the c 
their {accefsy but procl ‘* _foun 
fignals of facrifice and filence, at religious ceremonies. 
"As H js allowed to have | 
many others by” 
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