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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... appeared to have both a great the twenty - four * courses ; and as among us there memory and understanding . Moreover , when I is not only a considerable difference between one was a child , and about fourteen years of age , I was ...
... appeared to have both a great the twenty - four * courses ; and as among us there memory and understanding . Moreover , when I is not only a considerable difference between one was a child , and about fourteen years of age , I was ...
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... appeared among them on the sudden , and fell down flat on the earth , and bedewed the ground with my tears : then I seemed to them an object of compassion ; and when I perceived the change that was made in the multitude , I tried to ...
... appeared among them on the sudden , and fell down flat on the earth , and bedewed the ground with my tears : then I seemed to them an object of compassion ; and when I perceived the change that was made in the multitude , I tried to ...
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... appeared to me , not more out of • This Jonathan is also taken notice of In the Latin notes , as the same that is mentioned by the rabbins in Porta Mos's . their affection to me , than out of their fear on their own account ; for ...
... appeared to me , not more out of • This Jonathan is also taken notice of In the Latin notes , as the same that is mentioned by the rabbins in Porta Mos's . their affection to me , than out of their fear on their own account ; for ...
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... appeared as if I had not yet read it , but only held it in my hands . I ordered twenty drachmæ should be given to the soldier for the charges of his journey ; and when he took the money , and said that he thanked me for it , I perceived ...
... appeared as if I had not yet read it , but only held it in my hands . I ordered twenty drachmæ should be given to the soldier for the charges of his journey ; and when he took the money , and said that he thanked me for it , I perceived ...
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... appeared to be the opinion of all the Gali- leans that I should arm them all , and march against John , and punish him as the author of all the dis- orders that had happened . Yet was not I pleased with their determination ; as ...
... appeared to be the opinion of all the Gali- leans that I should arm them all , and march against John , and punish him as the author of all the dis- orders that had happened . Yet was not I pleased with their determination ; as ...
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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.