III. JASON, High-Priest of the Jews, and brother to Onias III. was a man of unbounded ambition, who made no scruple of divesting his brother of the High-Priesthood, in order to take possession of this Dignity himself; and this by sacrilegiously purchasing it with a sum of money of Antiochus Epiphanes, the most impious Prince of his time, and the greatest Enemy to the Jews. The History of Jason is differently related by the Author of the second book of Maccabees and Josephus the Historian. Joseph. Antiq. l. 12. c. 4. ad finem.Josephus says, that at the death of Onias
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