136.] [Footnote 2: 2 Sam.

xxiv.] [Footnote 3: Talmud of Babylon, _Baba Kama_, 113 _a_; _Shabbath_, 33 _b_.] [Footnote 4: Jos., _Ant._, XVIII.i.1 and 6; _B.J._, II.viii.

1; _Acts_ v.37.Previous to Judas the Gaulonite, the _Acts_ place another agitator, Theudas; but this is an anachronism, the movement of Theudas took place in the year 44 of the Christian era (Jos., _Ant._, XX.v.

1).] [Footnote 5: Jos., _B.J._, II.xvii.8, and following.] Galilee was thus an immense furnace wherein the most diverse elements were seething.[1] An extraordinary contempt of life, or, more properly speaking, a kind of longing for death,[2] was the consequence of these agitations.

Experience counts for nothing in these great fanatical movements.