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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... haste to inform the Jews of their coming ; upon which they took their arms , with their wives and children , and retired to the citadel at Gamala , leaving their own villages full of all sorts of good things , and having many ten thou ...
... haste to inform the Jews of their coming ; upon which they took their arms , with their wives and children , and retired to the citadel at Gamala , leaving their own villages full of all sorts of good things , and having many ten thou ...
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... haste thither ; for that if I made any delay , the city would come under another's jurisdiction . Upon the receipt of this letter of Silas , I took two hundred men along with me , and travelled all night , having sent before a messenger ...
... haste thither ; for that if I made any delay , the city would come under another's jurisdiction . Upon the receipt of this letter of Silas , I took two hundred men along with me , and travelled all night , having sent before a messenger ...
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... haste away to the house in which I lodged , as if he would kill me immediately , while I was wholly insensible of all till this disturbance happened ; and by reason of the pains I had been taking , was fallen fast asleep ; but Simon ...
... haste away to the house in which I lodged , as if he would kill me immediately , while I was wholly insensible of all till this disturbance happened ; and by reason of the pains I had been taking , was fallen fast asleep ; but Simon ...
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... haste to do the fact , he advised them to alleviate the wickedness they were going about , in the manner of taking Joseph off ; for as he had exhorted them first , when they were going to revenge themselves , to be dis- suaded from ...
... haste to do the fact , he advised them to alleviate the wickedness they were going about , in the manner of taking Joseph off ; for as he had exhorted them first , when they were going to revenge themselves , to be dis- suaded from ...
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... haste to Egypt , and to travel night and day , and not to draw out the time , and so make the slavery of the He- brews and their sufferings to last the longer . " 4. Moses having now seen and heard these won- ders that assured him of ...
... haste to Egypt , and to travel night and day , and not to draw out the time , and so make the slavery of the He- brews and their sufferings to last the longer . " 4. Moses having now seen and heard these won- ders that assured him of ...
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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.