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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... multitude to deal kindly with them , and permitted them to send to those that were their own hostages with Gessius to Dora , which is a city of Phoenicia , as often as they pleased ; though I still found the inhabitants of Tiberias ...
... multitude to deal kindly with them , and permitted them to send to those that were their own hostages with Gessius to Dora , which is a city of Phoenicia , as often as they pleased ; though I still found the inhabitants of Tiberias ...
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... multitude , since , if I had forbid- den him , I should have been stoned by them.- When I had therefore permitted this to be done by John , he gained vast sums of money by this his knavery . 14. But when I had dismissed my fellow ...
... multitude , since , if I had forbid- den him , I should have been stoned by them.- When I had therefore permitted this to be done by John , he gained vast sums of money by this his knavery . 14. But when I had dismissed my fellow ...
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... multitude had openly applauded him for what he had said , he took some of the armed men , and made 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 ...
... multitude had openly applauded him for what he had said , he took some of the armed men , and made 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 ...
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... multitude to me ; and when they complied readily with this proposal , and sent me the men forementioned , I put them on board a ship , and sent them away to Tariches , and ordered them to be kept in prison . 32. But as for the ...
... multitude to me ; and when they complied readily with this proposal , and sent me the men forementioned , I put them on board a ship , and sent them away to Tariches , and ordered them to be kept in prison . 32. But as for the ...
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... multitude of the Galileans , they should ask them what was the reason of their love to me ? and if they said that it was because I was born at Jerusa- lem , that they should reply , that they four were all born at the same place ; and ...
... multitude of the Galileans , they should ask them what was the reason of their love to me ? and if they said that it was because I was born at Jerusa- lem , that they should reply , that they four were all born at the same place ; and ...
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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.