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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... told them that they were in- ferior to the Romans not only in martial skill , but also in good fortune ; and desired them not rashly , and after the most foolish manner , to bring on the dangers of the most terrible mis- chiefs upon ...
... told them that they were in- ferior to the Romans not only in martial skill , but also in good fortune ; and desired them not rashly , and after the most foolish manner , to bring on the dangers of the most terrible mis- chiefs upon ...
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... told them how powerfuling the walls of his own city . But when I per- the Romans were , and said it was not for their advantage to make war with them ; and at length he prevailed with them . But now , when the king was acquainted with ...
... told them how powerfuling the walls of his own city . But when I per- the Romans were , and said it was not for their advantage to make war with them ; and at length he prevailed with them . But now , when the king was acquainted with ...
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... told them that it was not for their own advantage and their adherence to John . But I came upon to do what they would have me to do , while the them , and prevented them ; for a messenger had Romans expected no other than that we should ...
... told them that it was not for their own advantage and their adherence to John . But I came upon to do what they would have me to do , while the them , and prevented them ; for a messenger had Romans expected no other than that we should ...
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... told me time ; but when he saw that his horse were use- what he had undertaken to do . When I was less to him in that place , he retired back to the informed of this , I went into the market - place , city Gibea , having lost three of ...
... told me time ; but when he saw that his horse were use- what he had undertaken to do . When I was less to him in that place , he retired back to the informed of this , I went into the market - place , city Gibea , having lost three of ...
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... told me , I thought it indecent for me to run away , and I resolved to expose myself to danger , and to act with some boldness ; so I gave order to shut the doors , and went up into an upper room , and de- sired that they would send ...
... told me , I thought it indecent for me to run away , and I resolved to expose myself to danger , and to act with some boldness ; so I gave order to shut the doors , and went up into an upper room , and de- sired that they would send ...
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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...
Page 29 - There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote.
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.