The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior ; to which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations, Volume 1David Huntington, 1815 |
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... mean of Joseph Scaliger in the Pro- legomena to his book De Emendatione Temporum , p . 17 . " Josephus is the most diligent and the greatest lover of truth of all writers : nor are we afraid to affirm of him , that it is more safe to ...
... mean of Joseph Scaliger in the Pro- legomena to his book De Emendatione Temporum , p . 17 . " Josephus is the most diligent and the greatest lover of truth of all writers : nor are we afraid to affirm of him , that it is more safe to ...
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... means the washing [ with water , ] would appear acceptable to him ; when they made use of it , not in order to the putting away , [ or the remission , ] of some sins , [ only , ] but for the purification of the body , supposing still ...
... means the washing [ with water , ] would appear acceptable to him ; when they made use of it , not in order to the putting away , [ or the remission , ] of some sins , [ only , ] but for the purification of the body , supposing still ...
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... means extinct at that time . About A. D. 640. Chron . Alex . p . 514 . Now Josephus also relates , in the eighteenth book of Anti- quities , how John the Baptist , that holy man , was beheaded on account of Herodias , the wife of Philip ...
... means extinct at that time . About A. D. 640. Chron . Alex . p . 514 . Now Josephus also relates , in the eighteenth book of Anti- quities , how John the Baptist , that holy man , was beheaded on account of Herodias , the wife of Philip ...
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... the name of Christ imprinted a sacred horror . " III . The famous clause in this testimony of Josephus con- cerning Christ , This was Christ , or the Christ , did not mean that this Jesus was the Christ of God or the DISSERTATION I. 19.
... the name of Christ imprinted a sacred horror . " III . The famous clause in this testimony of Josephus con- cerning Christ , This was Christ , or the Christ , did not mean that this Jesus was the Christ of God or the DISSERTATION I. 19.
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... mean- ing , and that by the last clause of this very passage , where he says the christians were named from this Christ , without a syllable , as though he really meant he was the true Messiah , or Christ of God . He farther seems to me ...
... mean- ing , and that by the last clause of this very passage , where he says the christians were named from this Christ , without a syllable , as though he really meant he was the true Messiah , or Christ of God . He farther seems to me ...
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Page 38 - 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 11 - And thus an end was put to this sedition. " [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 37 - And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Page 40 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac : and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 89 - ... 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 38 - 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.
Page 38 - 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 37 - Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents ; they have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind...
Page 37 - Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them...
Page 33 - By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee...