Luke 3:19

Luke 3:19

But Herod the tetrarch being reproved by him
By John, as the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions add:

for Herodias his brother Philip's wife;
for taking her to wife, whilst his brother Philip was living. The account, which the Jewish chronologer ^F24 gives, of this Herod, and of this fact of his, and John's reproving him for it, and the consequence of it, perfectly agrees with this of the evangelist.

``Herod Antipater, and there are some that call him, (yqrjyj) "the tetrarch", was a son of Herod the first, and brother of Archelaus'; and he was the third king of the family of Herod; and he was very wicked, and a destroying man: many of the wise men of Israel he slew with the sword; and he took the wife of his brother Philip, whilst he was alive, to himself for wife; and John, the high priest, because (wxykwh) , "he reproved him" for this, he slew him with the sword, with many of the wise men of Israel.''

And John reproved him not only for this sin, but others:

and for all the evils which Herod had done;
his revellings, debaucheries, murders all which John, in great faithfulness, and with much freedom, told him and rebuked him for: for Herod had had a particular respect for him, and often had him with him, and heard him gladly, when John had an opportunity of speaking personally to him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Ganz. Tzemach David, par, 1. fol. 25. 2.