CHAPTER XIX

DOMITIAN COMMANDS THE POSTERITY OF DAVID TO BE SLAIN

WHEN the same Domitian had issued his orders that the descendants of David should be slain; according to an ancient tradition, some of the heretics accused the descendants of Judas, as the brother of our Saviour, according to the flesh, because they were of the family of David, and as such, also, were related to Christ. This is declared by Hegesippus as follows.