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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... laws even to spoil our enemies ; so I said to those that brought these spoils , that they ought to be kept , in order to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem with them when they came to be sold ; but the young men took it very ill that they ...
... laws even to spoil our enemies ; so I said to those that brought these spoils , that they ought to be kept , in order to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem with them when they came to be sold ; but the young men took it very ill that they ...
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... laws ; -- and that so far as men any way apostatize from the accurate observation of them , what was practicable before , becomes impracticable ; * and whatsoever they set about as a good thing is converted into an incurable calamity ...
... laws ; -- and that so far as men any way apostatize from the accurate observation of them , what was practicable before , becomes impracticable ; * and whatsoever they set about as a good thing is converted into an incurable calamity ...
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... law , all this time , being twenty years ; after which he desired leave of his father - in - law , to take his wives ... laws , they used to wor- ship in their own country , and ran away together with her sister . The children also of ...
... law , all this time , being twenty years ; after which he desired leave of his father - in - law , to take his wives ... laws , they used to wor- ship in their own country , and ran away together with her sister . The children also of ...
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... laws from God . Accordingly he appointed such laws , and afterwards informed them in what manner they should act in all cases ; which laws I shall make mention of in their proper time ; but I shall reserve most of those laws for another ...
... laws from God . Accordingly he appointed such laws , and afterwards informed them in what manner they should act in all cases ; which laws I shall make mention of in their proper time ; but I shall reserve most of those laws for another ...
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... laws he ordained were such as God suggested to him ; so I shall now dis- course concerning that form of government , and those laws . 9. I will now treat of what I before omitted , the garment of the high - priest : for he [ Moses ] ...
... laws he ordained were such as God suggested to him ; so I shall now dis- course concerning that form of government , and those laws . 9. I will now treat of what I before omitted , the garment of the high - priest : for he [ Moses ] ...
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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.