He's a pretender, pure and simple.
In the same year he joined as a volunteer against the Pretender, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Falkirk (1746).
He reigned only four months (in 294), and was succeeded by the pretender Narseh.
He now renounced all further efforts on the Pretender's behalf.'
Not a rough prophet in the desert like John, not a leader striking for political freedom, not a pretender aiming at the petty throne of the Herods, not even a great rabbi, building on the patriotic foundation of the Pharisees who had secured the national life by a new devotion to the ancient law.