The Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior. With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, &c. and Explanatory Notes and ObservationArmstrong and Plaskitt, and Plaskitt & Company, 1835 - 648 pages |
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... slew them , when they had not the least occasion of complaint against them : for they did neither attempt any innovation or revolt from the Romans , nor had they given any mark of hatred or treacherous design towards of the third ...
... slew them , when they had not the least occasion of complaint against them : for they did neither attempt any innovation or revolt from the Romans , nor had they given any mark of hatred or treacherous design towards of the third ...
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... slew him . And when the freed man of Philip did not return again , Philip was doubtful what should be the occasion of his stay , and sent a second messenger with letters , that he might , upon his return , inform him what had befallen ...
... slew him . And when the freed man of Philip did not return again , Philip was doubtful what should be the occasion of his stay , and sent a second messenger with letters , that he might , upon his return , inform him what had befallen ...
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... slew . They also slew own executioner , lest , if thou refusest so to be , Chares , and with him Jesus , one of his kinsmen , thou undergo a worse punishment . " And , when and a brother of Justus of Tiberias , as we have he earnestly ...
... slew . They also slew own executioner , lest , if thou refusest so to be , Chares , and with him Jesus , one of his kinsmen , thou undergo a worse punishment . " And , when and a brother of Justus of Tiberias , as we have he earnestly ...
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... slew his brother on the occasion following . They had resolved to sacrifice to God . Now Cain brought the fruits of the earth , and of his husbandry ; but Abel brought milk , and the first fruits of his flock : but God was more ...
... slew his brother on the occasion following . They had resolved to sacrifice to God . Now Cain brought the fruits of the earth , and of his husbandry ; but Abel brought milk , and the first fruits of his flock : but God was more ...
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... slew him with his javelin , and with it he slew Cozbi also . Upon which all those young men that had a regard to virtue , and aimed to do a glorious action , imitated Phineas's boldness , and slew those that were found to be guilty of ...
... slew him with his javelin , and with it he slew Cozbi also . Upon which all those young men that had a regard to virtue , and aimed to do a glorious action , imitated Phineas's boldness , and slew those that were found to be guilty of ...
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Page 235 - ... for that he would conduct my army, and would give me the dominion over the Persians; whence it is, that having seen no other in that habit, and now seeing this person in it, and remembering that vision, and the exhortation which I had in my dream, I believe that I bring this army under the divine conduct, and shall therewith conquer Darius, and destroy the power of the Persians, and that all things will succeed according to what is in my own mind.
Page 322 - ... the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this...
Page 98 - Canaan,) he dismissed the senate; and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out of fear lest they should venture to say, that because of his extraordinary virtue he went to God.
Page 165 - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons, which is a science useful and sanative to men. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return, and this method of cure is of great force unto this day...
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Page 165 - ... about ; for when by my subjects I have cut down many and large trees of cedar and cypress wood, I will send them to sea, and will order my subjects to make floats of them, and to sail to what place soever of thy country thou...
Page 322 - Now in the western quarters of the enclosure of the temple there were four gates; the first led to the king's palace, and went to a passage over the intermediate valley; two more led to the suburbs of the city; and the last led to the other city, where the road descended down into the valley by a great number of steps, and thence up again by the ascent...
Page 271 - I would now explain is this, that the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the law of Moses ; and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say, that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.
Page 29 - God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time of foretelling [the periods of the stars] unless they had lived six hundred years; for the great year is completed in that interval.
Page 225 - Jerusalem : but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country, wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe, subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers.