 | Flavius Josephus - 1824 - 596 pages
...to be the best thing they could do in their present circumstances, he gathered the most courageous of his companions together, and encouraged them to...servants to the Romans, nor to any other than to God hiraself,who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind ; the time is now come that obliges us to put... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1826 - 494 pages
...to be the best thing they could do in their present circumstances, he gathered the most courageous of his companions together, and encouraged them to take that course by a speech * which he made to them in the manner following :—" Since we long ago, my generous friends, resolved never to be servants... | |
 | John Brown - 1839 - 562 pages
...wives, their children and themselves, rather than surrender to the Romans. " We long ago," said he, " resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor to...other than to God himself, who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind."! It was the prevalence of these views among the Jews that suggested to our Lord's... | |
 | Moses Margoliouth - 1846 - 454 pages
...addresses at the same time; I therefore give here the speeches of Eleazar, long though they are :— " Since we long ago, my generous friends, resolved never...other than to God himself, who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind, the time is now come that obliges us to make that resolution true in practice.... | |
 | Moses Margoliouth - 1851 - 326 pages
...:— " Since we long ago, my generous friends, resolved never * See Prynne's Demurrer, Part ip 13. to be servants to the Romans, nor to any other than to God himself, who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind, the time is now come that obliges us to make that resolution true in practice.... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1852 - 712 pages
...to be the best thing they could do in their present circumstances, he gathered the most courageous of his companions together, and encouraged them to take that course by a speech* which he made to them in the manner following :—" Since we, long ago, my generous friends, resolved never to be servants... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...to be the best thing they could do iu their presen 1 circumstances, he gathered the most courageous of his companions together, and encouraged them to take that course by a speech* which he made to them in the manner following :—" Since we long ago, my generous friends, resolved never to be servants... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 586 pages
...maidens, Eleazar commenced his harangue, of which the following is an epitome : Since we long «go, my generous friends, resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor to any other authority than that of God himself, the time has now arrived when the fulfillment of that determination... | |
 | Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control - 1867 - 548 pages
...wives, their children and themselves, rather than surrender to the Romans. " We long ago," said he, "resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor...other than to God himself, who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind." * It was the prevalence of these views among the Jews that suggested to our... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1869 - 612 pages
...to be the best thing they could do in their present circumstances, he gathered the most courageous of his companions together, and encouraged them to take that course by a speech' which he made to them in the manner following: — 1 The speeches in this and the next section, as introduced under... | |
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of his companions together, and encouraged them to take that course: by a speech which he made to the following effect. " * Since, we long ago, my generous friends, resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor to any other than to God himself, who... 
