“피부 전체에 도저히 참기 어려운 가려움 증세가 있었고, 장에는 계속적인 통증이 있었으며, 발에는 수종과 같은 종창이 있었고, 배에는 염증이 있었다. 은밀한 부분의 괴저 때문에 벌레들이 나올 정도였고, 천식까지 있어서 숨쉬기가 매우 힘들었으며, 사지에 경련이 일어났다.”—「유대 전쟁사」, I, 656 (xxxiii, 5).
Very possibly because of his licentious living, Herod was eventually afflicted with a loathsome disease accompanied by fever and, to quote Josephus, “an intolerable itching of the whole skin, continuous pains in the intestines, tumours in the feet as in dropsy, inflammation of the abdomen and gangrene of the privy parts, engendering worms, in addition to asthma, with great difficulty in breathing, and convulsions in all his limbs.” —The Jewish War, I, 656 (xxxiii, 5).jw2019 jw2019