The Complete Works of Flavius-Josephus the Celebrated Jewish Historian1895 |
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... tion ; for they of Tiberias have not been the only betrayers of our liberty , but many of the most eminent patriots of the Galileans , as they pretended to be , have done the same . Tarry , therefore , till I shall thoroughly find out ...
... tion ; for they of Tiberias have not been the only betrayers of our liberty , but many of the most eminent patriots of the Galileans , as they pretended to be , have done the same . Tarry , therefore , till I shall thoroughly find out ...
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... tion . He also cast him , together with his wife , out of that land . And when he was afraid , that in wandering about he should fall among the wild beasts , and by that means perish , God bid him not to entertain such a melancholy ...
... tion . He also cast him , together with his wife , out of that land . And when he was afraid , that in wandering about he should fall among the wild beasts , and by that means perish , God bid him not to entertain such a melancholy ...
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... tion ? " To which it was answered , " That God would provide himself an oblation , he being able to make a plentiful provision for men out of what they have not , and to deprive others of what they already have , when they put too much ...
... tion ? " To which it was answered , " That God would provide himself an oblation , he being able to make a plentiful provision for men out of what they have not , and to deprive others of what they already have , when they put too much ...
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... tion of it to Joseph , as if the dream were not by them understood : but they prayed that no part of what they suspected to be its meaning , might come to pass ; and they bare a still greater hatred to him on that account . was a ...
... tion of it to Joseph , as if the dream were not by them understood : but they prayed that no part of what they suspected to be its meaning , might come to pass ; and they bare a still greater hatred to him on that account . was a ...
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... tion of so many children being not easily ob- was a virgin , and her name was Asenath . By tained by kings themselves . Now this he did her he had children before the scarcity came in order to discover what concerned his father , on ...
... tion of so many children being not easily ob- was a virgin , and her name was Asenath . By tained by kings themselves . Now this he did her he had children before the scarcity came in order to discover what concerned his father , on ...
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Page 32 - ... might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;* the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform them that there was...
Page 125 - And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Page 198 - ... to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed. And when Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 331 - 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 laws 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 198 - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons, which is a science useful and sanative to him. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons so that they never return: and this method of cure is of great force...
Page 395 - ... the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this farther vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height, insomuch, that if any one looked down from the top of the battlements, or down both those altitudes, he would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth.
Page 117 - Canaan,) he dismissed the senate ; and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out of fear lest they should venture to say, that because of his extraordinary virtue he went to God.
Page 32 - God to be their enemy, (73) for many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.
Page 250 - And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.