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... heard that I was at Simonias , a village situ- ated in the confines of Galilee , and was dis- ant from him sixty furlongs , he took a hun- red horsemen that were with him by night , and a certain number of footmen , about two hundred ...
... heard that I was at Simonias , a village situ- ated in the confines of Galilee , and was dis- ant from him sixty furlongs , he took a hun- red horsemen that were with him by night , and a certain number of footmen , about two hundred ...
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... heard Ananus say this , he desired that the messengers would conceal the thing , and not let it come among many ; for that he would take care to have Josephus 41. Now , as my father wrote me an account removed out of Galilee very ...
... heard Ananus say this , he desired that the messengers would conceal the thing , and not let it come among many ; for that he would take care to have Josephus 41. Now , as my father wrote me an account removed out of Galilee very ...
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... heard this , and saw what sor- those that are come from Jerusalem ; do thou row the people were in , I was moved with com- write an answer to it quickly , for I am obliged passion to them , and thought it became me to to return to them ...
... heard this , and saw what sor- those that are come from Jerusalem ; do thou row the people were in , I was moved with com- write an answer to it quickly , for I am obliged passion to them , and thought it became me to to return to them ...
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... heard this they were in fear of their own body , nor to spoil the country , but to pitches , and in danger lest they should be as their tents in the plain , and be content with saulted by the Galileans on my account ; so the sustenance ...
... heard this they were in fear of their own body , nor to spoil the country , but to pitches , and in danger lest they should be as their tents in the plain , and be content with saulted by the Galileans on my account ; so the sustenance ...
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... heard these things , they were greatly provoked at Jonathan and his colleagues that were with him , and were going to attack them , and kill them ; and this they had certainly done , unless I had restrained the anger of the Galileans ...
... heard these things , they were greatly provoked at Jonathan and his colleagues that were with him , and were going to attack them , and kill them ; and this they had certainly done , unless I had restrained the anger of the Galileans ...
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Page 135 - And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Page 34 - There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris ; upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the deluge were saved ; and that one who was carried in an ark, came on shore upon the top of it, and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved : this might be the man about whom Moses, the legislator of the Jews wrote.
Page 356 - I would now explain is this, that the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses; and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.
Page 126 - Canaan,) he dismissed the senate ; and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out of fear lest they should venture to say, that because of his extraordinary virtue he went to God.
Page 426 - Panium. This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which there is a great cavity in the earth, and the cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of a still water ; over it hangs a vast mountain; and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan. Herod adorned this place, which was already a very remarkable one, still further by the erection of this temple, which he dedicated to Caesar.
Page 214 - Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal, in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers. The manner of the cure was this; he put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon, to the nostrils of the demoniac...
Page 309 - Jews also did, all together with one voice, salute Alexander, and encompass him about ; whereupon the kings of Syria and the rest were surprised at what Alexander had done, and supposed him disordered in his mind. However, Parmenio alone went up to him, and asked him how it came to pass, that when all others adored him, he should adore the high priest of the Jews...
Page 32 - ... made two pillars ;* the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day.
Page 309 - I did not adore him, but that God who hath honoured him with his high priesthood ; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very habit, when I was /at Dios in Macedonia, who, when I was considering with myself how I might obtain the dominion of Asia, exhorted me to make no delay, but boldly to pass over the sea thither, for that he would conduct my army, and would give me the dominion over the Persians...