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Updated: June 8, 2025
His reluctance to lift the cover made Vitellius impatient. "Break it in!" he cried to his lictors. Mannaeus heard the command, and, seeing a lictor step forward armed with a hatchet, he feared that the man intended to behead Iaokanann. He stayed the hand of the lictor after the first blow, and then slipped between the heavy lid and the pavement a kind of hook.
Vitellius was too closely guarded to be reached. No one would kill Iaokanann. "It is I!" thought the tetrarch. It might be that the Arabs would return and make a successful attack upon him. Perhaps the proconsul would discover his relations with the Parthians.
"A man should never allow himself to be annoyed," said he, "by such foolish criticism." And he laughed at the censure of the priests and the fury of Iaokanann, saying that his words were of little importance. Herodias, who also had reappeared, and now stood at the top of a flight of steps, called loudly: "You are wrong, my lord! He ordered the people to refuse to pay the tax!"
"His name is Phanuel, and he will try to seek out Iaokanann, since thou wert so foolish as to allow him to live." Antipas said that the man might some day be useful to them. His attacks upon Jerusalem would gain them the allegiance of the rest of the Jews. "No," said Herodias, "the Jews will accept any master, and are incapable of feeling any true patriotism."
At that instant the trap-door was suddenly shut down and secured by Mannaeus, who would have liked to strangle Iaokanann then and there. Herodias glided away and disappeared within the palace. The Pharisees were scandalised at what they had heard. Antipas, standing among them, attempted to justify his past conduct and to excuse his present situation.
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