and settle the affairs of
his government; and he promised to return again, when he had put the
rest in order, as it ought to be put. So, upon the emperor's permission,
he came into his own country, and appeared to them all unexpectedly as
asking, and thereby demonstrated to the men that saw him the power of
fortune, when they compared his former poverty with his present happy
affluence; so some called him a happy man, and others could not well
believe that things were so much changed with him for the better.

CHAPTER 7. How Herod The Tetrarch Was Banished.

1. But Herodias, Agrippa's sister, who now lived as wife to that Herod
who was tetrarch of Galilee and Peres, took this authority of her
brother in an envious manner, particularly when she saw that he had a
greater dignity bestowed on him than her husband had; since, when he ran
away, it was because he was not able to pay his debts; and now he was
come back, he was in a way of dignity, and of great good fortune. She
was therefore grieved and much displeased at so great a mutation of his
affairs; and chiefly when she saw him marching among the multitude with
the usual ensigns of royal authority, she was not able to conceal how
miserable she was, by reason of the envy she had towards him; but she
excited her husband, and desired him that he would sail to Rome, to
court honors equal to his; for she said that she could not bear to live
any longer, while Agrippa, the son of that Aristobulus who was condemned
to die by his father, one that came to her husband in such extreme
poverty, that the necessaries of life were forced to be entirely
supplied him day by day; and when he fled away from his creditors by
sea, he now returned a king; while he was himself the son of a king, and
while the near relation he bare to royal authority called upon him to
gain the like dignity, he sat still, and was contented with a privater
life. "But then, Herod, although thou wast formerly not concerned to
be in a lower condition than thy father from whom thou wast derived
had been, yet do thou now seek after the dignity which thy kinsman hath
attained to; and do not thou bear this contempt, that a man who admired
thy riches should be in greater honor than thyself, nor suffer his
poverty to show itself able to purchase greater things than our
abundance; nor do thou esteem it other than a shameful thing to be
inferior to one who, the other day, lived upon thy charity. But let us
go to R