The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, Volume 2Henry G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... laws , and men well beloved by the people , because of their education of their youth ; for all those that were ... law of their fathers , and thereby obtain the rewards which the law will confer on them for such actions of piety , for ...
... laws , and men well beloved by the people , because of their education of their youth ; for all those that were ... law of their fathers , and thereby obtain the rewards which the law will confer on them for such actions of piety , for ...
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... law , of which he was accused by Judas and Matthias ; for the king had erected over the great gate of the temple a ... laws which Moses had suggested to him , and were taught him by God , and which he wrote and left behind him , more ...
... law , of which he was accused by Judas and Matthias ; for the king had erected over the great gate of the temple a ... laws which Moses had suggested to him , and were taught him by God , and which he wrote and left behind him , more ...
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... law of their fathers had appointed for the Jews at this time , which feast is called the passover , and is a memorial ... laws , and kept together in the temple , and had plenty of food , because these seditious persons were not ashamed ...
... law of their fathers had appointed for the Jews at this time , which feast is called the passover , and is a memorial ... laws , and kept together in the temple , and had plenty of food , because these seditious persons were not ashamed ...
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... laws . * Now , the number of the ambassadors that were sent by the authority of the nation was fifty , to which they joined above eight thousand of the Jews that were at Rome already . Hereupon Cæsar assembled his friends , and the ...
... laws . * Now , the number of the ambassadors that were sent by the authority of the nation was fifty , to which they joined above eight thousand of the Jews that were at Rome already . Hereupon Cæsar assembled his friends , and the ...
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... laws , and going about to kill those that would have hindered them from acting unjustly , when they were by him punished for what they had done , made their complaints against him ; so he accused them of their attempts for innovation ...
... laws , and going about to kill those that would have hindered them from acting unjustly , when they were by him punished for what they had done , made their complaints against him ; so he accused them of their attempts for innovation ...
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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.