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on account of his sins. (see Antiquities
17.6.5).
"The texts that we depend on for a close
description of Herod's last days list
several major features of the disease
that caused his death--among them,
intense itching, painful intestinal
problems, breathlessness, convulsions
in every limb, and gangrene of the
genitalia," says Hirschmann. (Jan
Hirschmann, M.D.) (from a news release
by the Veterans Administration at
http://www.newswise.com/articles/wh
at-killed-king-herod in January 2002)
34. The angel bid him to return to the land
of Israel.
