V. SIMON, Son of Boethus, High-priest of the Jews. He was rais’d to the High-priesthood in the Year of the World 3981, and depos’d in 3999, one Year before the Birth of Jesus Christ, and four Years before the vulgar Era. Simon was originally of Alexandria, and Herod the Great promoted him to the Dignity of High-priest,1 that he might with the better Grace marry his Sister Mariamne. But this Pontiff being suspected of being concern’d in the Conspiracy of Pheroras and Antipater against Herod, he deprived him of the Priesthood, and put up in his Place Matthias the Son of Theophilus2.
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