. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. was confiscated.^ Judaa, Idum^a, and Samaria now became Eomandependencies—and, as such, were burdened with taxes, including a poll-tax and aland-tax—and were annexed to the province of Syria. In the time of Augustus (fig. G) ( 27) the various subject provinces had beendivided between the Emperor and the Senate; and Syria, to which Judffia was now Persea was the coimtry along the east of the Jordan, and extended from Machterus on the south to Pella on the north. Jos. Bell. iii. 3, 3. For the boundaries of Philips tetrarchy, which was peopled by a mixed r
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. was confiscated.^ Judaa, Idum^a, and Samaria now became Eomandependencies—and, as such, were burdened with taxes, including a poll-tax and aland-tax—and were annexed to the province of Syria. In the time of Augustus (fig. G) ( 27) the various subject provinces had beendivided between the Emperor and the Senate; and Syria, to which Judffia was now Persea was the coimtry along the east of the Jordan, and extended from Machterus on the south to Pella on the north. Jos. Bell. iii. 3, 3. For the boundaries of Philips tetrarchy, which was peopled by a mixed race of Jews and VOL. I. Syrians, see Jos. Bell. iii. 3, 5.* Jos. Ant. xvii. U, 4; Bell. ii. 6, 3.^ See Fasti Sacri, p. 146, No. 1011.° Jos. Bell. ii. 7, 3; Ant. xvii. 13, 2. See Fasti Sacri, p. 79, No. 666. SKETCH OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE HEATH OF [Chap. II. attached, was one of those allotted to the Emperor, and as such was governed by aPrefect, called a Proprwtor, who was always of consular dignity,^ with three Legates, or. &.—Portrait of Augustus, From (. W. KingsAntiqtte (terns. Fig. T.—rnrtrait of the wife of Augustus,l-nim C. W. Kings Antique Oems. military commanders, under him, and a Procurator, who collected and managed therevenue. Though Judsea thus became an appendage to Syria, yet, from the turbulent * ey TO eiTfiTa e-yeVoiTo ^vpias a-Tparrj-yol tS>v to Thus, when C. Sentius Satuminus ( 6)etrdvvfxa ap^avroiv fi> turrei. Appian. SjT. 51. was prefect, his three sous were his legates. Chap. II.] HEROD THE GREAT TO THE MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN. 19 nature of the Jews, and from the distance of the country from Antioch, the capitalof Syria, the Emperor thought it advisable to appoint a separate officer to administerthe affairs of Judaea, subject to the control of the Syrian Prefect. At the same time,therefore, that Publius Sulpicius Quirinus, or Cyrenius, was made Propraetor of Syria,Coponius, a man of the equestrian order, was sent, by the title
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