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(augmented and re-worked) I Was Agrippa Herodes by Andy P. Antippas I was Agrippa Herodes, the Younger, ruler of Judea from 48 Your Years until Titus dispersed the Jews in 70. During that time Apollonius, the Cappadocian Greek of Tyana, under the name of Paulinus, was brought before me by my fellow Jews for disturbing the peace of that country. The Jews in those days, especially the Pharisees, gladly killed anyone who knew more of their religion and could expound it better than our Rabbis. But because my Procurators could not find anything subversive in his behavior, except that he knew more about the Jewish religion than my own people did, he was discharged. I personally arranged for his safe transit to Antioch. From there, as I learned, he returned to India to research further Pythagoras’ borrowings from the Buddhist principles and to study documents describing the life and actions of Krishna. He found the original documents, in the south of the country, kept by the Gymnosoph Iarchus and untouched by the Indian priests. These he found purer and clearer than the muddled Greek versions which had existed even before Alexander’s generals carried new paraphrased texts to Athens and Egypt. On his way to Alexandria, Apollonius passed through Jersusalem to speak with myself, the Nazarites, and the Greek and Roman scholars; he could not resist an encounter with the usurious Rabin who exchange shekels on the temple steps. They once again charged him…with blasphemy against their god Jehovah. Once again he was exonerated. This time, however, his life was in danger and I was obliged to give him a cohort almost to the gates of Alexandria. Return to Main Page © Copyright 2000-2009 Barrister's Gallery and Dr. Andy P. Antippas For information send email to aantippas@aol.com
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