by
Damien
F. Mackey
Moving
on, Herod ‘the Great’ was well and truly dead by the time
that
Simon Maccabee undertook his immense restorative work in Jerusalem.
Though
Herod was a formidable builder (including the Pantheon),
he
never built any third Temple in Jerusalem.
Introduction
That
the Antonia was the praetorium is a traditional Christian view:
“Traditionally, Christians have believed for centuries that the
vicinity of the Antonia Fortress was the site of Pontius Pilate' praetorium, where Jesus was tried for high treason. This was based on the assumption that an
area of Roman flagstones discovered beneath the Church of the Condemnation and the Convent of the Sisters of Zion was 'the pavement' which John 19:13 describes as the
location of Jesus' trial”.
And
this is the traditional view as to how it got its name, Antonia?
“The Antonia
Fortress (Aramaic: קצטרא דאנטוניה) was a citadel built by Herod the Great and named for Herod's patron Mark Antony …”.
But
this view brings with it certain chronological difficulties from a conventional
perspective:
“The
construction date is controversial because the name suggests that Herod built
Antonia before the defeat of Mark Antony by Octavian in
31–30 BCE and Mark Antony's suicide in 30 BCE. Herod is famous for being an apt
diplomat and pragmatist, who always aligned himself with the winning side and
the "man in charge" of Rome. It is somewhat difficult to bring this
date in accordance with the presumed date for the construction of the Herodian
Temple”.
It
brings even greater difficulties when “Herod”, here, meaning King Herod ‘the
Great’,
is
properly identified in relation to Octavian. For we are actually in the Greek,
Seleucid, era of the Maccabees. Octavian is Julius Caesar Augustus, a Greek -
the infamous emperor Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ - and Herod is his right-hand man,
Marcus Agrippa, a great builder in antiquity:
Herod, the emperor’s signet right-hand man
(2)
Herod, the emperor's signet right-hand man
He
was a barbaric Phrygian (2 Maccabees 5:22).
Names,
at this time, can be Greek: Caesar, Pontius, Pilate, praetorion, lithostrōton:
Pontius Pilate chose Greek before Latin
(2)
Pontius Pilate chose Greek before Latin
The
emperor Hadrian, who was a Grecophile, was the Seleucid monster, ‘Epiphanes’:
Time to consider Hadrian, that ‘mirror-image’ of Antiochus Epiphanes,
as also the census emperor Augustus
He
was probably also that marvellously mixed together Julian-Antiochus character, Gaius
Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus:
Antiochus IV ‘Epiphanes’ Tripled?
(2)
Antiochus IV 'Epiphanes' Tripled?
This
was the era of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, and so, of course, there has to be
a rebel Judas at the time of the Census (a duplication of Judas Maccabeus):
Judas the Galilean vitally links Maccabean era to Daniel 2’s “rock cut
out of a mountain”
(2)
Judas the Galilean vitally links Maccabean era to Daniel 2’s “rock cut out of a
mountain”
And
there has to be war going on in and around Jerusalem:
Religious war raging in Judah during the Infancy of Jesus
(2)
Religious war raging in Judah during the Infancy of Jesus
Moving
on, Herod ‘the Great’ was well and truly dead by the time that Simon Maccabee undertook
his immense restorative work in Jerusalem. Though Herod was, as said, a
formidable builder (including the Pantheon), he never built any third Temple in
Jerusalem:
Only two Temples of Yahweh ever stood in City of Jerusalem
(3)
Only two Temples of Yahweh ever stood in City of Jerusalem
How
did the Antonia Fortress really get its name?
It
was, as we have learned above, the prætorium of Pontius Pilate.
Well,
according to my newly revised article identifying:
Procurator Pontius Pilate and Procurator Marcus Ant. Felix
(3)
Procurator Pontius Pilate and Procurator Marcus Ant. Felix
Pontius
Pilate must have been named, also, Marcus Antonius, which, again, can be a
Greek name, Markos Antonios:
Marc Anthony Name » AstroInsightz
“The
name Anthony, or “Antonius” in Latin, is believed to be derived from the Greek
name “Antonios” (Αντόνιος) …”.
Pontius
Pilate Markos Antonios, a late contemporary of the Greek emperor,
Augustus, must have been the matrix for that legendary character, the
colourful Mark Antony, close friend of the regally ambivalent legend, Julius
Caesar:
‘ARE YOU A KING THEN?’
JOHN
18:37
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