 | Flavius Josephus - 1794 - 398 pages
...would not have afforded the time for foretelling [the periods of the ftars], unlefs they had lived fix hundred years ; for the Great Year is completed in that interval. Now 1 have for witneffes, to what I have faid, all thofe that have written Antiquities, both among the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 322 pages
...live so great a number of years : and besides, God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in...discoveries, which would not have, afforded the time for foretelling [the periods of the stars,] unless they had lived six hundred years ; for the Great... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1820 - 550 pages
...mical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time necessary for predicting the periods of the stars, unless they had lived six hundred years ; for the annus magnus is completed in that interval."* By this cycle of six hundred years, which Bailli terms... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1822 - 474 pages
...live so great a number of years ; and besides, God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in...discoveries, which would not have afforded the time for foretelling [the periods of the stars], unless they had lived six hundred years ; for the great... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1823 - 608 pages
...live so great a number of years. And besides, God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in...geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded them time for foretelling the periods of the stars, unless they had lived six hundred years, for the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 350 pages
...a number of years : and besides, God afforded them a longer time of life on account of thenvirtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical and...discoveries, which would not have afforded the time for fortelling [the periods, of the stars,] unless they had lived six hundred years ; for the great... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1835 - 682 pages
...grent a number of years; and besides, God afforded them a longer time of life ou account of tlieir virtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical...discoveries, which would not have afforded the time for foretelling, [the periods of the stars,] unless they had lived six hundred years; for the great... | |
 | Thomas Best Jervis - 1836 - 696 pages
...live so great a number of years. And, besides GOD afforded them a longer term of life, on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in...discoveries, which would not have afforded the time for foretelling (the periods of the stars), unless they had lived 600 years for the Great Year is completed... | |
 | Charles Crosthwaite - 1839 - 370 pages
...discoveries; and Josephus goes so far as to say, that " God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in...foretelling the periods of the stars unless they had lived 600 years; for the GREAT YEAR is completed in that interval3." On this passage the London Encyclopaedia... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...discoveries ; and Josephus goes so far as to say that " God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in...for the great year is completed in that interval." On this passage, a writer observes, ''By this remarkable expression is probably meant the period in... | |
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God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have, afforded the time for foretelling [the periods of the stars,] unless they had lived... 
