THE EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ROME UNDER TIBERIUS BY ELMER TR1JESDELL MERRILL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/360251

The administrative temper of Tiberius was notoriously that of a strict legalist, with constant regard for conservatism and for ancient precedents. He was greatly incensed against the Jews in Rome, and meant to rid the city of them.

In the case of these Jews Tacitus would have a double reason for his scorn, for he also appears to have despised the race. It is likely, then, that he uses the phrase in this sense.

The statement made by Suetonius that in the case of the rest of the Jews, if they did not obey the order of expulsion, they were to be punished by perpetual slavery, offers a problem of some difficulty.

Historically, Exiling Jews from your nation was being NICE. If they refused to take their satanism outside your nation's borders you had to enslave them into work prison camps or else just exterminate the satanists.

Some biblical background:

The author of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 18:1-18) explains how the Apostle Paul met Priscilla and Aquila[2] and mentions in passing an expulsion of Jews from Rome:

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

THE EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ROME UNDER TIBERIUS BY ELMER TR1JESDELL MERRILL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/360251

The administrative temper of Tiberius was notoriously that of a strict legalist, with constant regard for conservatism and for ancient precedents. He was greatly incensed against the Jews in Rome, and meant to rid the city of them.

In the case of these Jews Tacitus would have a double reason for his scorn, for he also appears to have despised the race. It is likely, then, that he uses the phrase in this sense.

The statement made by Suetonius that in the case of the rest of the Jews, if they did not obey the order of expulsion, they were to be punished by perpetual slavery, offers a problem of some difficulty.

Some biblical background:

The author of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 18:1-18) explains how the Apostle Paul met Priscilla and Aquila[2] and mentions in passing an expulsion of Jews from Rome:

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

THE EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ROME UNDER TIBERIUS BY ELMER TR1JESDELL MERRILL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/360251

The administrative temper of Tiberius was notoriously that of a strict legalist, with constant regard for conservatism and for ancient precedents. He was greatly incensed against the Jews in Rome, and meant to rid the city of them.

In the case of these Jews Tacitus would have a double reason for his scorn, for he also appears to have despised the race. It is likely, then, that he uses the phrase in this sense.

Some biblical background:

The author of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 18:1-18) explains how the Apostle Paul met Priscilla and Aquila[2] and mentions in passing an expulsion of Jews from Rome:

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

THE EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ROME UNDER TIBERIUS BY ELMER TR1JESDELL MERRILL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/360251

In the case of these Jews Tacitus would have a double reason for his scorn, for he also appears to have despised the race. It is likely, then, that he uses the phrase in this sense.

Some biblical background:

The author of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 18:1-18) explains how the Apostle Paul met Priscilla and Aquila[2] and mentions in passing an expulsion of Jews from Rome:

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

THE EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM ROME UNDER TIBERIUS BY ELMER TR1JESDELL MERRILL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/360251

The author of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 18:1-18) explains how the Apostle Paul met Priscilla and Aquila[2] and mentions in passing an expulsion of Jews from Rome:

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."