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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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* Zerubbabel <strong>and</strong> afterwards under Ezra.* Nor<br />

was <strong>the</strong>ir inferiority<br />

confined to numbers. <strong>The</strong> wealthiest <strong>and</strong> most<br />

influential <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews<br />

*Ajit.xL«. remained behind. According to<br />

Josephus,'* with whom Philo snb-<br />

xTttiTi * ' stantially agrees, vast numbers,<br />

estimated at millions, inhabited <strong>the</strong><br />

Trans-Buphratic provinces. To judge even by <strong>the</strong><br />

number <strong>of</strong> those<br />

slain in popular risings (50,000 in Seleucia<br />

alone'), <strong>the</strong>se figures do<br />

not seem greatly exaggerated. A lator tradition had<br />

it, that so dense<br />

was <strong>the</strong> Jewish population in <strong>the</strong> Persian Empire,<br />

that Cyrus forbade

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