Excerpt from A Sermon: Delivered in the Presbyterian Meeting-House in Winchester, on Thursday the 23d Jan 1812; Being a Day of Fasting and Humiliation, Appointed by the Citizen of Winchester on Account of the Late Calamitous, Fire at the Richmond Theatre By referring to another passage of scripture, and to the Jewish historian, Josephus, we learn the occasion of this cruel deed. These persons, slain by Pilate, the pro curator of Judea, were some of the faction of Judas of Galilee, mentioned by Gamalie] in the 5th Chap. Of the Acts of the Apostles, and more at large, by Josephus. This Judas had stirred Up the Galileans to sedition against the Roman government, under a pretence otas serting their liberty, by freeing them from the Roman tribute and some of them coming to Jerusalem, to seGBP41?

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