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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... armed all his men , and joined battle with the people forementioned ; and rebuilt Gischala after a manner better than before , and fortified it with walls for its future security . 11. But Gamala persevered in its allegiance to the ...
... armed all his men , and joined battle with the people forementioned ; and rebuilt Gischala after a manner better than before , and fortified it with walls for its future security . 11. But Gamala persevered in its allegiance to the ...
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... armed unlawful desires , especially where a person is in men that were with him , I attempted to make a great authority . Yet did I preserve every woman speech to the multitude of the people of Tiberias ; free from injuries ; and as to ...
... armed unlawful desires , especially where a person is in men that were with him , I attempted to make a great authority . Yet did I preserve every woman speech to the multitude of the people of Tiberias ; free from injuries ; and as to ...
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... armed men that were about him , and removed from Tiberias to Gischala , and wrote to me to apologize for himself concerning what had been done , as if it had been done without his approba- tion ; and desired me to have no suspicion of ...
... armed men that were about him , and removed from Tiberias to Gischala , and wrote to me to apologize for himself concerning what had been done , as if it had been done without his approba- tion ; and desired me to have no suspicion of ...
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... armed men ; and when I was at the city Besara , that lay in the confines of Ptolemais , but twenty furlongs from Gibea , where Ebutius abode , I placed my armed men on the outside of the village , and gave orders that they should guard ...
... armed men ; and when I was at the city Besara , that lay in the confines of Ptolemais , but twenty furlongs from Gibea , where Ebutius abode , I placed my armed men on the outside of the village , and gave orders that they should guard ...
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... armed men to leave me when I was asleep , and to come presently to the hippodrome , in order there to take counsel against me their commander ; and when they had prevailed with them , and they were gotten together , they found there a ...
... armed men to leave me when I was asleep , and to come presently to the hippodrome , in order there to take counsel against me their commander ; and when they had prevailed with them , and they were gotten together , they found there a ...
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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.