The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, Volume 2Henry G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... Reason , he got into peculiar Favour with his Friends at Rome , by giving them many Presents ; as he did also with Saturninus , the president of Syria , and the Governors who were under him ; and concerning Herod's Wives and Children ...
... Reason , he got into peculiar Favour with his Friends at Rome , by giving them many Presents ; as he did also with Saturninus , the president of Syria , and the Governors who were under him ; and concerning Herod's Wives and Children ...
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... reason Pheroras would do well , if he would , of his own accord , and by his own command , and not at my en- treaty , or as following my opinion , put this his wife away , as one that will still be the occasion of war between thee and ...
... reason Pheroras would do well , if he would , of his own accord , and by his own command , and not at my en- treaty , or as following my opinion , put this his wife away , as one that will still be the occasion of war between thee and ...
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... reason Herod divorced her , and blotted her son out of his testament , wherein he had been mentioned as one that was to reign after him ; and he took the high priesthood away from his father - in - law , Simeon the son of Boethus , and ...
... reason Herod divorced her , and blotted her son out of his testament , wherein he had been mentioned as one that was to reign after him ; and he took the high priesthood away from his father - in - law , Simeon the son of Boethus , and ...
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... reason of their want of instruction . So Archelaus went down to the sea with his mother , and took with him Nicolaus and Ptolemy , and many others of his friends , and left Philip , his brother , as governor of all things belonging This ...
... reason of their want of instruction . So Archelaus went down to the sea with his mother , and took with him Nicolaus and Ptolemy , and many others of his friends , and left Philip , his brother , as governor of all things belonging This ...
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... reason , because Cæsar is therein left to be the judge and disposer of all therein contained ; and for Cæsar , he will not , to be sure , at all imitate the unjust proceedings of those men , who , during Herod's whole life , had on all ...
... reason , because Cæsar is therein left to be the judge and disposer of all therein contained ; and for Cæsar , he will not , to be sure , at all imitate the unjust proceedings of those men , who , during Herod's whole life , had on all ...
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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.