The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, Volume 2Henry G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... continued still to assist each other in all things , insomuch that Antipater was entirely addicted to them , both by himself and by his mother ; for these four woment said all one This is now wanting . ↑ Pheroras ' wife , and her ...
... continued still to assist each other in all things , insomuch that Antipater was entirely addicted to them , both by himself and by his mother ; for these four woment said all one This is now wanting . ↑ Pheroras ' wife , and her ...
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... continued faithful to him in all his circumstances , and was never so rash as to do him any harm and as he despaired of recovering , for he was about the seventieth year of his age , he grew fierce , and indulged the bitterest anger ...
... continued faithful to him in all his circumstances , and was never so rash as to do him any harm and as he despaired of recovering , for he was about the seventieth year of his age , he grew fierce , and indulged the bitterest anger ...
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... continued his life to a very old age . But then as to the affairs of his family and children , in which indeed , according to his own opinion , he was also very fortunate , because he was able to conquer his enemies , yet , in my ...
... continued his life to a very old age . But then as to the affairs of his family and children , in which indeed , according to his own opinion , he was also very fortunate , because he was able to conquer his enemies , yet , in my ...
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... continued , and they cast stones at the Romans , partly with their hands , and partly with slings , as being much used to those exercises . All the archers also in array did the Romans a great deal of mischief ; because they used their ...
... continued , and they cast stones at the Romans , partly with their hands , and partly with slings , as being much used to those exercises . All the archers also in array did the Romans a great deal of mischief ; because they used their ...
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... Now , these four brethren continued the war a long while by such sort of expeditions , and much grieved the Romans ; but did their own nation also VOL . II . D a great deal of mischief . Yet were they afterwards BOOK XVII . - CHAP . X. 33.
... Now , these four brethren continued the war a long while by such sort of expeditions , and much grieved the Romans ; but did their own nation also VOL . II . D a great deal of mischief . Yet were they afterwards BOOK XVII . - CHAP . X. 33.
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Page 48 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 573 - Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works — a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ...
Page 589 - Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech ; he shall surely be put to death : the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Page 458 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people.
Page 580 - He was the Christ ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third •day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him ; and the ;tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Page 590 - Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.
Page 590 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Page 591 - Behold the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 423 - I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly, that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world.
Page 590 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.