The Works of Flavius Josephus ...: To which are Added, Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Etc. with an Index to the Whole, Volume 4T. Tegg, 1825 |
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... death in battle before one by hunger and thirst . 14. However , Josephus contrived another stratagem besides the foregoing to get plenty of what they wanted . There was a certain rough and uneven place that could hardly be ascended ...
... death in battle before one by hunger and thirst . 14. However , Josephus contrived another stratagem besides the foregoing to get plenty of what they wanted . There was a certain rough and uneven place that could hardly be ascended ...
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... death as that was , and fled to the Romans ; by whom Cerealis understood that those which still stayed there were very much broken by their misfortunes . So he went up the mountain , and having placed his forces round about the enemy ...
... death as that was , and fled to the Romans ; by whom Cerealis understood that those which still stayed there were very much broken by their misfortunes . So he went up the mountain , and having placed his forces round about the enemy ...
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... death was occasioned by the following treachery . For there was one of those that were fled into the caverns , which were a great number , who desired that this Antonius would reach him his right hand for his security , and would assure ...
... death was occasioned by the following treachery . For there was one of those that were fled into the caverns , which were a great number , who desired that this Antonius would reach him his right hand for his security , and would assure ...
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... death . O Josephus ! art thou still fond of life ? and canst thou bear to see the light in a state of slavery ? How soon hast thou for- gotten thyself ? How many hast thou persuaded to lose their lives for liberty ? Thou hast ...
... death . O Josephus ! art thou still fond of life ? and canst thou bear to see the light in a state of slavery ? How soon hast thou for- gotten thyself ? How many hast thou persuaded to lose their lives for liberty ? Thou hast ...
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... death , if Josephus might but die with them , sweeter than life : yet was he with an- other left to the last , whether we must say it happened so by chance , or whether by the providence of God . And as he was very desirous , neither to ...
... death , if Josephus might but die with them , sweeter than life : yet was he with an- other left to the last , whether we must say it happened so by chance , or whether by the providence of God . And as he was very desirous , neither to ...
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Page 370 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 376 - 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 370 - 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, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the...
Page 374 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Page 349 - 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 368 - Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Page 372 - Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Page 349 - ... principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Page 375 - Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering...
Page 373 - Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents...