Antiq. l. 17. c. 4, 6. Antiq. l. 17. c. 6. p. 626. In the year of J.C. 30.II. HEROD, called Philip in the Gospel, the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne, daughter to Simon the High-Priest, was at first set down in Herod’s Will to be Heir to the kingdom, after the death of Alexander and Aristobulus, and after the discovery of Antipater’s conspiracy: but Herod having discovered, that Mariamne, Herod’s mother, was concerned in this conspiracy, he razed Herod out of his Will, and substituted Archelaus in his place. Herod Philip married Herodias, grand-daughter to Herod the Great, by whom he had Salome, who is mentioned in the Gospel as a graceful dancer. Herod Antipas the Tetrarch, brother to Philip, having been some time with him, when he was upon a journey to Rome, conceived a criminal passion for Herodias, and talked to her of marrying him. Herodias consented, upon condition that Antipas would divorce the daughter of King Aretas, whom he had married long before.
Antipas, when he returned from Rome, performed his promise, and took Herodias his brother Philip’s or Herod Philip’s wife. Against this incestuous marriage, St. John inveighed with great vehemence; and this was the Herodias by whose procurement this great man’s head was cut off.