From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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Gaza, which had been a free city, among <strong>the</strong> cities given <strong>Herod</strong> <strong>by</strong><br />
Augustus, and yet implies that <strong>Herod</strong> had made Cos<strong>to</strong>barus a governor<br />
<strong>of</strong> it before, Antiq. B. XV. ch. 7. sect. 9, Hardain has some pretense for<br />
saying that <strong>Josephus</strong> here contradicted himself. But perhaps <strong>Herod</strong><br />
thought he had sufficient authority <strong>to</strong> put a governor in<strong>to</strong> Gaza, after he<br />
was made tetrarch or king, in times <strong>of</strong> war, before <strong>the</strong> city was entirely<br />
delivered in<strong>to</strong> his hands <strong>by</strong> Augustus.<br />
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