The Works of Flavius JosephusAlden & Beardsley, 1857 - 880 pages |
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... delivered them up voluntarily ; for I was not willing that my enemies should know any thing of the guards I had set ... deliver up John into my power ; and when they said this , they took their oaths of it , and those such as are most ...
... delivered them up voluntarily ; for I was not willing that my enemies should know any thing of the guards I had set ... deliver up John into my power ; and when they said this , they took their oaths of it , and those such as are most ...
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... delivered ; two of which letters who am a wicked man . But then , for what I have here subjoined , and thou mayst thereby reason was it that king Agrippa , who procured know their contents : - " King Agrippa to thee thy life when thou ...
... delivered ; two of which letters who am a wicked man . But then , for what I have here subjoined , and thou mayst thereby reason was it that king Agrippa , who procured know their contents : - " King Agrippa to thee thy life when thou ...
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... delivered from the curse thei brought upon them , and at last to be delivered from that bondage of corruption , Kom . viii . 19–22 . others . He also made Eve liable to the in- 30 BOOK I. ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS .
... delivered from the curse thei brought upon them , and at last to be delivered from that bondage of corruption , Kom . viii . 19–22 . others . He also made Eve liable to the in- 30 BOOK I. ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS .
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... delivered the govern- ment to Cainan his son , whom he had in his hundred and ninetieth year : he lived nin hundred and five years . Cainan , when h had lived nine hundred and ten years , had hi son Malaleel , who was born in his ...
... delivered the govern- ment to Cainan his son , whom he had in his hundred and ninetieth year : he lived nin hundred and five years . Cainan , when h had lived nine hundred and ten years , had hi son Malaleel , who was born in his ...
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... delivered from still overflowed , returned to Noah again . so severe a calamity ; for that otherwise these And after seven days he sent out a dove , to last must be more miserable than the first , know the state of the ground ; which ...
... delivered from still overflowed , returned to Noah again . so severe a calamity ; for that otherwise these And after seven days he sent out a dove , to last must be more miserable than the first , know the state of the ground ; which ...
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Page 137 - 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 433 - ... but the roofs were adorned with deep sculptures in wood, representing many sorts of figures : the middle was much higher than the rest, and the wall of the front was adorned with beams, resting upon pillars, that were interwoven into it, and that front was all of polished stone, insomuch that its fineness, to such as had not seen it, was incredible, and to such as had seen it, was greatly amazing.
Page 218 - He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils ; and when the man fell down immediately, he abjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Page 94 - I mean, that were in the nature of buttons on the high priest's shoulders. And for the twelve stones, whether we understand by them the months, or whether we understand the like number of the signs of that circle which the Greeks call the Zodiac, we shall not be mistaken in their meaning.
Page 42 - And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Page 40 - ... he began to have higher notions of virtue than others had, and he determined to renew and to change the opinion all men happened then to have concerning God ; for he was the first that ventured to publish this notion, That there was but one God, the Creator of the universe ; and that, as to other [gods], if they contributed anything to the happiness of men, that each of them afforded it only according to his appointment, and not by their own power.
Page 36 - ... 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 32 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom, which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order.
Page 32 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.
Page 362 - 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 law 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.