The Works of Flavius JosephusAlden & Beardsley, 1857 - 880 pages |
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... reason it was that he was puffed up , and kept home . Upon which John was so enraged , the letters to himself . He contrived also that that he armed all his men , and joined battle the king should not meet with those writings , with the ...
... reason it was that he was puffed up , and kept home . Upon which John was so enraged , the letters to himself . He contrived also that that he armed all his men , and joined battle the king should not meet with those writings , with the ...
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... reasons , what wars also they had made in remote ages , and those such as are very different one from till they were ... reasons for writing his - resolution in them all . I yielded to this man's tory , I must profess the two last were ...
... reasons , what wars also they had made in remote ages , and those such as are very different one from till they were ... reasons for writing his - resolution in them all . I yielded to this man's tory , I must profess the two last were ...
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... reason why God accepted the sacrifice of Abel , and rejected that of Cain ; as also why Cain slew Ahel , on account of that his acceptance with God , is much better than this of Josephus : I mean , because Cain was of the evil one , and ...
... reason why God accepted the sacrifice of Abel , and rejected that of Cain ; as also why Cain slew Ahel , on account of that his acceptance with God , is much better than this of Josephus : I mean , because Cain was of the evil one , and ...
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... reason why there was no greater number preserved , since they had no place to fly to . When the rain ceased , the water did but just begin to abate , after one hundred and fifty days ( that is , on the seventeenth day of the seventh ...
... reason why there was no greater number preserved , since they had no place to fly to . When the rain ceased , the water did but just begin to abate , after one hundred and fifty days ( that is , on the seventeenth day of the seventh ...
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... reason of the multitude of hands employed in it , it grew very high , sooner than any one could expect ; but the ... reason they fell into calamities , and wind and overthrew the tower , and gave every were made sensible , by experience ...
... reason of the multitude of hands employed in it , it grew very high , sooner than any one could expect ; but the ... reason they fell into calamities , and wind and overthrew the tower , and gave every were made sensible , by experience ...
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Page 196 - He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return ; and this method of cure is of great force unto this day ; for I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers.
Page 24 - ... 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 121 - 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 196 - 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 275 - ... and the high priest in purple and scarlet clothing, with his mitre on his head, having the golden plate whereon the name of God was engraved, he approached by himself, and adored that name, and first saluted the high priest.
Page 84 - 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 29 - God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time of foretelling [the periods of the stars] unless they had lived six hundred years; for the great year is completed in that interval.
Page 196 - Now these contributed to the king's table, and to his supper every day,* thirty cori of fine flour, and sixty of meal ; as also ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen...
Page 375 - ... 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 197 - ... for when, by my subjects, I have cut down many and large trees of cedar and cypress wood, I will send them to sea, and will order my subjects to make floats of them, and to sail to what...