The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: The Jewish Historian: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus, Written by Himself, Volume 1James Cundee and M. Jones, 1806 |
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... hath not understood his nature in a manner worthy of him , and hath not ever ascribed to him such opera- tions as become his power , and hath not preserved his writings from those in- decent fables which others have framed , although by ...
... hath not understood his nature in a manner worthy of him , and hath not ever ascribed to him such opera- tions as become his power , and hath not preserved his writings from those in- decent fables which others have framed , although by ...
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... hath a particular relation about them , where he speaks thus : " 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 ...
... hath a particular relation about them , where he speaks thus : " 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 ...
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... hath conferred on me , in being to me a supporter and defender . Accord- ingly , thou my son , wilt now die , not in any com- mon way of going out of the world , but sent to God , the father of all men , beforehand , by thy own father ...
... hath conferred on me , in being to me a supporter and defender . Accord- ingly , thou my son , wilt now die , not in any com- mon way of going out of the world , but sent to God , the father of all men , beforehand , by thy own father ...
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... hath sent me to you , being desirous to take this damsel for his son to wife . He is his legitimate son , and is brought up as his only heir . He could indeed have had the most happy of all the women in that country for him , but he ...
... hath sent me to you , being desirous to take this damsel for his son to wife . He is his legitimate son , and is brought up as his only heir . He could indeed have had the most happy of all the women in that country for him , but he ...
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... hath himself chosen one that is to perform that sacred office to him ; and thereby freed us from that care . So that it was not a thing that I pretended to give : but only according to the determination of God : I therefore propose it ...
... hath himself chosen one that is to perform that sacred office to him ; and thereby freed us from that care . So that it was not a thing that I pretended to give : but only according to the determination of God : I therefore propose it ...
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Page 4 - And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they 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...
Page 325 - In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts ; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
Page 229 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Page 8 - He would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again ; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach ; and that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.
Page 97 - 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 192 - 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 adjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Page 5 - God to be their enemy, (73) 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 174 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 14 - But Lot's wife continually turning back to view the city, as she went from it, and being too nicely inquisitive what would become of it, although God had forbidden her so to do, was changed into a pillar of salt £ ; for I have seen it, and it remains at this day.
Page 192 - Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon as he went out of the man to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...