Identifier: historyofjewish00rigg (find matches)
Title: A history of the Jewish people during the Maccabean and Roman periods (including New Testament times)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Riggs, James Stevenson, 1853-
Subjects: Jews
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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seph(Ant. xiv. 13, 7-9). 182. Antigonus was now master of the situation.His coins were stamped with the title King on oneside, and High-Priest on the other. But he wasnot the man for the critical position to which he hadbeen suddenly lifted by the Parthians. An excep-tional opportunity in the very support of these bar-barians was given him for winning the friendship ofRome. The latter power would have unquestionablyignored Herod in its readiness to secure a helpful allianceagainst these dreaded bowmen. Then, too, the inhab-itants in the mountains of Galilee were ready to upholdhim, and among other places fortified Sepphoris in hisinterests. But, as has been truly said, he was neithera statesman nor a general. His entire energy spentitself in petty concerns, and his overmastering passionwas for revenge against Herod. When Hyrcanusand Phasael were handed over to him by Barzapharnes,he cut off the high-priests ears to disqualify him fromfurther service, and then had him carried away as a
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HEROD AS A FUGITIVE IN EGYPT AND ROME 173 captive by the Parthians, and Phasael escaped hisvengeance only by killing himself (Ant. xiv. 13, 10).While Antigonus was engaged in besieging Masada,events were taking place which were destined to changethe whole current of affairs. 183. After leaving his brother in charge of Masada,Herod turned to Petra to get from Malchus, the suc-cessor of Aretas, his fathers friend, enough money toransom his brother Phasael, whom he believed tobe still alive. Malchus, from fear of the Parthians,refused to receive him, and the disappointed fugitivehastened on to Egypt. Here he hoped to find Antony,who had given himself up to the enchantments ofCleopatra, and in complete indifference to the inroadsof the Parthians, was spending his days in a roundof pleasure and dissipation. Again Herod was disap-pointed, for Antony had at last come to a realizationof his danger and had gone to Tyre, the only city inSyria which had not been taken by the Parthians.Cleopatra

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