The Works: Comprising the Antiquities of the Jews; A History of the Jewish Wars, and Life of Flavius JosephusLea, 1850 - 662 pages |
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... Judea , and conjectured that the lands which I had in Judea would bring me no profit , because a garrison to guard the country was afterward to pitch • Here Josephus , a priest , honestly confesses that he did that at the mand of ...
... Judea , and conjectured that the lands which I had in Judea would bring me no profit , because a garrison to guard the country was afterward to pitch • Here Josephus , a priest , honestly confesses that he did that at the mand of ...
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... Judea , and conjectured that the lands which I had in Judea would bring me no profit , because a garrison to guard the country was afterward to pitch Here Josephus , a priest , honestly confesses that he did that at the Burnmand of ...
... Judea , and conjectured that the lands which I had in Judea would bring me no profit , because a garrison to guard the country was afterward to pitch Here Josephus , a priest , honestly confesses that he did that at the Burnmand of ...
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... JUDEA . § 1. Now Abram having no son of his own , adopted Lot , his brother Haran's son , and his wife Sarai's brother ; and he left the land of Chaldea when he was seventy - five years old , and at the command of God went into Canaan ...
... JUDEA . § 1. Now Abram having no son of his own , adopted Lot , his brother Haran's son , and his wife Sarai's brother ; and he left the land of Chaldea when he was seventy - five years old , and at the command of God went into Canaan ...
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... Judea , by this queen of Sheba , since several have aid , that of old no country bore this precious balsam but Judea ; yet it is not only false that this balsam was peculiar to Judea , but both Egypt and Arabia , and particularly Sabæn ...
... Judea , by this queen of Sheba , since several have aid , that of old no country bore this precious balsam but Judea ; yet it is not only false that this balsam was peculiar to Judea , but both Egypt and Arabia , and particularly Sabæn ...
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... Judea , and his concern with Jeroboam , and with the false prophet of Bethel than our other copies have , is evident at first sight . The prophet's very name , Jadon , or , as the Con- titations call him , Adonals , f wanting in our ...
... Judea , and his concern with Jeroboam , and with the false prophet of Bethel than our other copies have , is evident at first sight . The prophet's very name , Jadon , or , as the Con- titations call him , Adonals , f wanting in our ...
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Page 134 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 174 - He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils ; and when the man fell down immediately, he abjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Page 294 - 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 30 - ... change the opinion all men happened then to have concerning God ; for he was the first that ventured to publish this notion, that there was but one God, the Creator of the universe ; and that as to other [gods,] if they contributed any thing to the happiness of men, that each of them afforded it only according to his appointment, and not by their own power.
Page 32 - And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.