Ananias (second messenger)

Family: Jewish · Role: messenger · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 4

Life events

• Eleazar and Zacharias summoned the Idumeans for immediate military assistance.(Book IV, Chapter 4)
  • With: Eleazar (son of Simon) Zacharias Ananias (first messenger)
  • “However, it was resolved to call in the Idumeans; so they wrote a short letter to this effect:”

Book IV, Chapter 4

• with Ananias (first messenger) (They were the two messengers carrying the same message.) “Now there were two active men proposed for the carrying this message, and such as were able to speak, and to persuade them that things were in this posture, and, what was a qualification still more necessary than the former, they were very swift of foot; for they knew well enough that these would immediately comply with their desires, as being ever a tumultuous and disorderly nation, always on the watch upon every motion, delighting in mutations; and upon your flattering them ever so little, and petitioning them, they soon take their arms, and put themselves into motion, and make haste to a battle, as if it were to a feast. There was indeed occasion for quick despatch in the carrying of this message, in which point the messengers were no way defective. Both their names were Ananias; and they soon came to the rulers of the Idumeans.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.