The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior ; to which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations, Volume 7David Huntington, 1815 |
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... whole compass of the city was thirty - three furlongs . Now the third wall was all of it wonderful ; yet was the tower Psephinus elevated above it at the north - west corner , and there Titus pitched his own tent for , being seventy ...
... whole compass of the city was thirty - three furlongs . Now the third wall was all of it wonderful ; yet was the tower Psephinus elevated above it at the north - west corner , and there Titus pitched his own tent for , being seventy ...
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... whole habitable earth ) ; they then encompassed their upper - courts with cloisters , as well as they [ afterward ] did the lowest [ court of the ] temple . The lowest part of this was erected to the height of three hundred cubits , and ...
... whole habitable earth ) ; they then encompassed their upper - courts with cloisters , as well as they [ afterward ] did the lowest [ court of the ] temple . The lowest part of this was erected to the height of three hundred cubits , and ...
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... at the partition wall , and 14 or 15 more thence into the court itself , which would bring the whole near to the just proportion . See 3. infra . But I determine nothing .. Each gate had two doors , ered over with silver 10 THE JEWISH WAR .
... at the partition wall , and 14 or 15 more thence into the court itself , which would bring the whole near to the just proportion . See 3. infra . But I determine nothing .. Each gate had two doors , ered over with silver 10 THE JEWISH WAR .
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... whole wall about it it had also golden vines above it , from which clusters of grapes hung as tall as a man's height . But then this house , as it was divided into two parts , the inner part was lower than the appearance of the outer ...
... whole wall about it it had also golden vines above it , from which clusters of grapes hung as tall as a man's height . But then this house , as it was divided into two parts , the inner part was lower than the appearance of the outer ...
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... whole height , including the sixty cubits from the floor , amounted to an hundred cubits . But 6. Now , the outward face of the temple , in its front , wanted nothing that was likely to surprise either men's minds or their eyes ; for it ...
... whole height , including the sixty cubits from the floor , amounted to an hundred cubits . But 6. Now , the outward face of the temple , in its front , wanted nothing that was likely to surprise either men's minds or their eyes ; for it ...
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Page 96 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the temple, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, a voice against all the people.
Page 84 - O thou miserable infant! for whom shall I preserve thee in this war, this famine, and this sedition? As to the war with the Romans, if they preserve our lives, we must be slaves. This famine also will destroy us, even before that slavery comes upon us. Yet are these seditious rogues more terrible than both the other.
Page 261 - ... which gate when those pass through that are conducted down by the angels appointed over souls, they do not go the same way, but the just are guided to the right hand, and are led with hymns, sung by the angels appointed over that place, unto a region of light, in which the just have dwelt from the beginning of the world ; not constrained by necessity, but ever enjoying the prospect of the good things they see, and rejoicing in the expectation of those new enjoyments which will be peculiar to...
Page 95 - ... opened of its own accord about the sixth hour of the night. Now those that kept watch in the temple came hereupon running to the captain of the temple, and told him of it; who then came up thither, and not without great difficulty was able to shut the gate again. This also appeared to the vulgar to be a very happy prodigy, as if God did thereby open them the gate of happiness.
Page 127 - It hath somewhat very peculiar in it; for when it runs, its current is strong, and has plenty of water; after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before, and as though it had undergone no change at all; it hath also been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly; whence it is that they call it the Sabbatic River (7) that name being taken from the sacred seventh day among the Jews.
Page 83 - She was eminent for her family and her wealth, and had fled away to Jerusalem with the rest of the multitude, and was with them besieged therein at this time. The other effects of this woman had been already seized upon, such I mean as she had brought with her out of Perea, and removed to the city. What she had treasured up besides, as also what food she had contrived to save, had been also carried off by the rapacious guards, who came every day running into her house for that purpose. This put the...
Page 91 - ... both for its curious structure and its magnitude, and also for the vast wealth bestowed upon it, as well as for the glorious reputation it had for its holiness; yet might such a one comfort himself with this thought, that it was fate that decreed it so to be, which is inevitable, both as to living creatures, and as to works and places also.
Page 85 - So those that were thus distressed by the famine were very desirous to die, and those already dead were esteemed happy because they had not lived long enough either to hear or to see such miseries.
Page 41 - 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 4 - Now, of these three walls, the old one was hard to be taken, both by reason of the valleys, and of that hill on which it was built, and which was above them. But besides that great advantage, as to the place where they were situated, it was also built very strong; because David and Solomon, and the following kings, were very zealous about this work.